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9th(2007)



Before the Summer Passes Away

SUNG Ji-hae

  • Korea
  • 2006
  • 78min
  • 35mm
  • color

SYNOPSIS

Soh-yun studying abroad has a relationship with Min-hwan, a divorced man and Jae-hyun who really likes Soh-yun. The film is a love triangle between the three of them. Soh-yun is confused between the man who she likes and the other man who likes her. She likes Min-hwan but he is divorced, self-centered and unconcerned. She does not refuse any of Min-hwan\'s requirements, makes an excuse to see him and accepts an untoward affair with him. Meanwhile, the very faithful Jae-hyun is always waiting for her. The film follows more and more ridiculed Soh-yun in the pursuit of her desire and criticized a falsity and vulgarity of women\'s blind desire for a man. It composedly reflects the last summer of a woman devoted to her own desires and in the last scene Soh-yun returns to Paris only to remain alone. (KIM Sunah)

PROGRAM NOTE

Soh-yun studying abroad has a relationship with Min-hwan, a divorced man and Jae-hyun who really likes Soh-yun. The film is a love triangle between the three of them. Soh-yun is confused between the man who she likes and the other man who likes her. She likes Min-hwan but he is divorced, self-centered and unconcerned. She does not refuse any of Min-hwan\'s requirements, makes an excuse to see him and accepts an untoward affair with him. Meanwhile, the very faithful Jae-hyun is always waiting for her. The film follows more and more ridiculed Soh-yun in the pursuit of her desire and criticized a falsity and vulgarity of women\'s blind desire for a man. It composedly reflects the last summer of a woman devoted to her own desires and in the last scene Soh-yun returns to Paris only to remain alone. (KIM Sunah)

Director

  • SUNG Ji-haeSUNG Ji-hae

    Born in Seoul in 1964, she majored in Anthropology at Seoul National University and received a master degree from Seoul National University in Journalism. Graduated from the Korean Academy of Film Art in 1993, and achieved a PhD at the 8th University of Paris in 2004. She has experience in film production including a directing crew member for Berlin Report (1991), a script for To the Starry Island (1993), and a directing crew member for Sunset into The Neon Lights (1995). She holds the record as the oldest female director to debut in Korea. Before the Summer Passes Away, her debut film, is acclaimed as a \'new discovery of Korean melodrama.\'

Credit

  • ProducerCHO Sung-woo Á¶¼º¿ì
  • Cast LEE Hyun-woo ÀÌÇö¿ì, KIM Bo-kyung ±èº¸°æ, KWON Min ±Ç¹Î
  • Screenwriter SUNG Ji-hae ¼ºÁöÇý
  • Cinematography JAE Chang-kyu Á¦Ã¢±Ô
  • Editor LEE Eun-soo ÀÌÀº¼ö
  • Music CHOI Yong-rak ÃÖ¿ë¶ô
  • Sound KIM Byeong-cheol ±èº´Ã¶