...but only one in the bathtub in Il Mare.
This film gets off to a frightening start with the kind of piano that here in the U.S. is often used in upscale department stores to imply that love is a commodity to be purchased.
The use of a mailbox serving as a spacetime portal is a nice invention, and there are a few tests and tricks that the female lead utilizes that get more mileage out of that device than one would expect. At the same time, the notion of love blooming in a series of epistles is unfulfilled here.
I don't think that is even the failure of the translating team. The actual letters aren't really what fan the flames of their love, rather it is requests passed through the medium that do. Aside from sharing a sulking sullenness, the two love interests are mainly united by that extraterrestial mailbox.
And a dog. A cute dog. I mean its name is Cola.
Yes the scenery is beautiful... But I had hoped for prose that would rival it. The notion of an architect building houses, with no sense of home. That was a touching line, but it was exchanged with a co-worker not penned to his amor.
The house-on-stilts near the strongly ebbing bay would qualify as a dream home, or even a dream house, for many. Meanwhile the projected house on the craggy coast made me want to quit my job here and go do the clearly more lucrative voice dubbing in Korea.
Having the long walk to the magical mailbox was a nice touch, adding to the anticipation of each exchange. And something about that vastly ebbing tide connected with the two-year gap between our heroes. I think the scene scouting on this was top notch, in a way it was more like casting.
The cinematography was at times fascinating. Great shots from outside to inside the stilts house, a nice revolving shot overlapping the two during the early whirling romance around the mailbox. But then that shot resolved on a clunky splitscreen image. Additionally a lot of the night footage just looked dismal.
The first wrong turn in the series of requests is deftly handled, and subtly unraveled within the next few scenes. The second wrong turn, however, is much more clumsy and makes me worry that the virus known as audience-testing has spread to Korea. Enough said for now...
Ultimately I feel like this would be more appreciated by teenagers and lonelyhearts. A little too simple for my tastes, but at least it gives some hope to the tradition of letter writing in romance.
4/10
This film gets off to a frightening start with the kind of piano that here in the U.S. is often used in upscale department stores to imply that love is a commodity to be purchased.
The use of a mailbox serving as a spacetime portal is a nice invention, and there are a few tests and tricks that the female lead utilizes that get more mileage out of that device than one would expect. At the same time, the notion of love blooming in a series of epistles is unfulfilled here.
I don't think that is even the failure of the translating team. The actual letters aren't really what fan the flames of their love, rather it is requests passed through the medium that do. Aside from sharing a sulking sullenness, the two love interests are mainly united by that extraterrestial mailbox.
And a dog. A cute dog. I mean its name is Cola.
Yes the scenery is beautiful... But I had hoped for prose that would rival it. The notion of an architect building houses, with no sense of home. That was a touching line, but it was exchanged with a co-worker not penned to his amor.
The house-on-stilts near the strongly ebbing bay would qualify as a dream home, or even a dream house, for many. Meanwhile the projected house on the craggy coast made me want to quit my job here and go do the clearly more lucrative voice dubbing in Korea.
Having the long walk to the magical mailbox was a nice touch, adding to the anticipation of each exchange. And something about that vastly ebbing tide connected with the two-year gap between our heroes. I think the scene scouting on this was top notch, in a way it was more like casting.
The cinematography was at times fascinating. Great shots from outside to inside the stilts house, a nice revolving shot overlapping the two during the early whirling romance around the mailbox. But then that shot resolved on a clunky splitscreen image. Additionally a lot of the night footage just looked dismal.
The first wrong turn in the series of requests is deftly handled, and subtly unraveled within the next few scenes. The second wrong turn, however, is much more clumsy and makes me worry that the virus known as audience-testing has spread to Korea. Enough said for now...
Ultimately I feel like this would be more appreciated by teenagers and lonelyhearts. A little too simple for my tastes, but at least it gives some hope to the tradition of letter writing in romance.
4/10