Fair Love follows festival success with January premiere
by javabeans
When Fair Love screened at this year’s Pusan International Film Festival as part of its Gala Presentation, it was hailed by critics as “the year’s most lovable film” and received a lot of praise. The film stars Lee Hana (Triple) and one of Korea’s most-loved veterans, Ahn Sung-ki, and has set a date for its wide theatrical release: it will open in January 2010.
In the film, the two portray a May-December romance. Ahn Sung-ki’s character is a rather sad fiftysomething bachelor whose only skill is in fixing broken cameras, who agrees to his friend’s deathbed wish to look after his daughter. Lee plays the twentysomething daughter, and the relationship between the two unexpectedly develops. The setup has the potential to go for the sensational angle, but instead the story is described as “sweet and charming.”
The poster above bears the tagline, “Ajusshi, you’re beautiful,” which is taken from a line in the film spoken by Lee Hana. The sudden admission renders Ahn speechless and kicks off their romance.
Via BNT News
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1 giddygirl108
December 8, 2009 at 9:12 AM
The pictures look great :) Hope the film will do well!
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2 y2b
December 8, 2009 at 9:36 AM
May-December love affair?
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3 Porcelain
December 8, 2009 at 9:45 AM
"Ahjusshi you are beautiful..." Gawd that line alone is enough to make me catch the movie... Is that the sweetest line or what?
Always like Ahn Sung Ki and Lee Hana... I thought she was fantastic in Alone in Love as Sohn Ye Jin quirky little sister, not too sure about how she did in Triple as I have yet to watch the drama... In all, excited to see this movie! May - December affair needs encouragement!
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4 Kender
December 8, 2009 at 9:49 AM
This actually looks adorable. :3
I'm such a sucker for May-December romances.. Perhaps I harbor a love of the ahjusshi myself? ♥
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5 Susan
December 8, 2009 at 10:06 AM
I wanna see this. Not really a big fan of Lee Hana but Ahn Sungki is a great actor
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6 linz
December 8, 2009 at 10:12 AM
eww...that's like the ages of me and my dad. sorry but can't get over that haha
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7 Carrie
December 8, 2009 at 10:21 AM
This looks like a fabulous movie. I'll have to wait to see it (unless they release it in the States which I'm highly doubting...) But it looks really, really good.
And Porcelain - I'm with you. That line kills. me.
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8 LadyIgraine
December 8, 2009 at 11:00 AM
I'm a fan of Lee Hana, I always thought she looks like the Korean Sophie Marceau.
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9 belleza
December 8, 2009 at 11:52 AM
“Ahjusshi you are beautiful…”
Ah what a beautiful line.
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10 su-pah
December 8, 2009 at 12:50 PM
I love this actress and was pretty gutted her awesome acting was overlooked by fans in Women of the Sun, it was eclipsed by Ji Soo's star gravitas.
Sure, you can grimace Ji Soo, but could you have done all those tomboyish action sequences? No way! Hana kicked ass in that drama and looked endearing at the same time, I loved both her role and her acting.
Anyway, that out of the way, can't wait to see her in this film. Glad she'll be in a lead role for once. Aw, Ahjussi looks sweet!
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11 belleza
December 8, 2009 at 1:46 PM
"I love this actress and was pretty gutted her awesome acting was overlooked by fans in Women of the Sun, it was eclipsed by Ji Soo’s star gravitas."
Actually, Lee Hana's performance in WIS generated so much buzz that the ratings exploded in the 2nd half of the show. Due to her popularity in that show, she got the Peppermint gig.
I love Hana -- true bohemian misfit. Would LOVE to see her in a show with Gong Yoo.
BTW, her show When Spring Comes is pretty good. It's the rare show where the great Kim Gab Soo gets lots and lots of screentime in a non-sageuk part. One of my favorite performances of 2007. If you liked Kim Gab Soo and Lee Hana in Alone in Love, you'll like them here too. And Lee Soon Jae gets a lot of screentime too.
For recent sageuk watchers, Park Gun Hyung and Kim Nam Gil (BIDAM FTW FOREVER!!) are the rivals for Hana's affection in this show.
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12 heejung
December 8, 2009 at 3:23 PM
@2: A "May-December romance" is a relationship where one partner is significantly older than the other. First time I've heard it too, so I looked it up. :)
I wanna see this when it opens - I really like age-gap stories for some reason. >w<
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13 rara
December 8, 2009 at 4:37 PM
anyone know where i can watch this now online, with english subs?
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14 belleza
December 8, 2009 at 5:29 PM
@rara,
It hasn't been wide released into movie theatres yet. Probably need to wait until next summer.
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15 Sharon
December 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM
Sounds good! But don't know if it would be shown in Hong Kong. Such kind of movies might not have market value here, so the chance is slim. Hope that at least DVD would be released here.
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16 birdscout
December 8, 2009 at 7:27 PM
I kinda hated her character in Triple but she looks appealing in all the shots here, and the two actors look good and "believable" together. This is a movie I would like to watch.
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17 pabo ceo reom
December 8, 2009 at 9:06 PM
Like Ahn Sung-ki but coupled with Lee Hana......errrr. Iffy.
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18 bbm
December 8, 2009 at 10:35 PM
i never watched Lee Hana in other than Le Grand Chef (haven't watched triple yet), so i can't really judge her, but i really like Ahn Sungki...
the age gap is quite large, but like i quote:
"The setup has the potential to go for the sensational angle, but instead the story is described as “sweet and charming.” "
this line really make me want to watch the movie...
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19 jana
December 9, 2009 at 4:46 AM
The stills looks gooD! wanna watch it...
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20 Norma
December 9, 2009 at 9:03 AM
I loved this actress in Women of the Sun....she had a very good role with flexibility in her acting.....the other actress didn't impress me at all as she had the pretty girl character which was really blah.....boring.
I'm looking forward to this movie....should be very interesting in how they present a romance between 2 age differences.
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21 su-pah
December 9, 2009 at 4:11 PM
Thank you sooo much Belleza! :D
Actually, I cottoned onto this drama a few months after it had aired, so I caught it online and reading the reviews, they were primarily focused on the lead actress.
I have yet to watch them two dramas but will definitely watch them now, thanks!
True, Gong Yoo is truly yummy, and as bohemian as Hana, would be a cool pairing.
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22 Taohua
December 9, 2009 at 5:53 PM
@belleza
I've been waiting for somebody to say that When Spring Comes was worth watching...I was contemplating eariler to watch it earlier because Kim Nam-gil was in it. I skimmed through the first half hour online but the video quality was pretty bad so I dropped it...but maybe I should give it another go
I have yet to watch an Ahn Sung-ki film...and to be honest on some level I feel like w/o watching a ASK film I'm missing out on something important...kind of like not seeing a Park Chan-wook film (maybe he's not the best comparison)...but even greater
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23 belleza
December 10, 2009 at 12:29 AM
"I have yet to watch an Ahn Sung-ki film…"
Yeah . . . he's THE Nation's Actor. He's like Al Pacino or Robert Deniro, or Tony Leung or Andy Lau.
"True, Gong Yoo is truly yummy, and as bohemian as Hana, would be a cool pairing."
They're kinda one of my dream matchups (like YEH and Eric.) They did some modeling together way back in 2006.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLLbUpL5ZEA
Also wanted Kang Ji Hwan to work with her too. Think it'll be a better match of scandalous and silliness.
"’ve been waiting for somebody to say that When Spring Comes was worth watching…"
When Spring Comes is a little bit like Bad Family -- it's less a romance and more about dysfunctional, but colorful family of conmen and their local, run-down community. Also the first time I saw Lee Eon in a show and he was adorable . . . sigh. :(
Of note: the 2nd half of the show covers the teardown and redevelopment of said community into a new complex. This is a real urban issue in rapidly changing Seoul, and it's nice to see a treatment of this problem in a drama.
I think the main draw of When Spring Comes is that you get to see Kim Gab Soo and Lee Soon Jae (playing father and grandfather) featured heavily in a drama that isn't a sageuk. Personally I feel Kim Gab Soo is the best actor working in Korean TV (you think Kim Myung Min is good? KMM can only hope to someday to do what KGS can do with one reaction shot.)
Lee Hana's good in here. She also plays kind of a thief/musician misfit who wants a chance to support herself through music. And I've always said that her version of the starving folkie was pretty much the most authentic version I've seen done in K-drama . . . because, well, she WAS a starving folkie at one point in her life.
This is from When Spring Comes, where Ha Na covers a old Korean pop song. Notice how her eyes drift as she sings. That's the look.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1drDm4_uDD0
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24 This Is Me Posting
December 10, 2009 at 2:01 PM
I absolutely adore Lee Hana. I'm very looking forward to this.
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25 Osamu
December 11, 2009 at 11:06 AM
I can't find a video trailer of this movie =(
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