Thursday, July 01, 2004

Il-Mare (2000)



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Melodrama Romance
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Synopsis:

Two reclusive romantics, Song-hyun and Eun-ju live in the same house at different points in time. They discover that they can communicate in real time by placing letters in a magic mailbox. Between past, present, and future, the two begin a romance that may never be in the same time.

Sung-hyun, who just moved into ' Il mare ' receives a strange letter. The letter is from a young woman in the year 1999, two years from the present. Her predictions about the past are amazingly accurate. Her warning about a flurry of snow on a certain day in January of 1998 and the ensuing flu virus turns out to be true. Eun-joo is convinced that her letter has traveled back in time to December of 1997 and starts writing regularly to her newfound pen pal. A professional voice actor, Eun-joo asks Sung-hyun to find her long lost cassette recorder at a train station. Sung-hyun goes to the train station and gets a glimpse of Eun-joo, who of course, has no idea who he is. Eun-joo and Sung-hyun continue their correspondence and try to solve this mystery. Sung-hyun start developing feelings for the beautiful Eun-joo..