ONE FINE SPRING DAY (South Korea, 2001)
Directed by: Hur Jin-Ho
Starring: Lee Young-Ae, Yoo Ji-Tae

How do you know a movie about relationships is good? When it rips out your stuffing, kicks a hole in your heart, and leaves you begging for more. The Village Voice praised Hur Jin-Ho's previous film, Christmas in August, as "...one of the most mature and gracious tearjerkers ever made." ONE FINE SPRING DAY is even better.

A symphony of loss scored to the rhythms of nature, SPRING DAY is about two sound engineers who meet, fall in love, and break up. Every inch of their relationship is examined for clues, and painful identification awaits anyone who's ever been in love. Meticulously acted by Yoo Ji-Tae (Attack the Gas Station) and Lee Young-Ae (Joint Security Area), ONE FINE SPRING DAY is one of the few movies to focus on the beauty of its soundtrack, and not just its visuals, as the two characters obsessively try to record wind rustling through a bamboo forest for a radio show. Quietly powerful, and subtly devastating, ONE FINE SPRING DAY is downbeat, poignant, painful, and strangely cathartic.

Just like breaking up.