Ava-Grace Willis Story: It's very simple but honestly that is fine.

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Ezmae Chang This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

Paynbob It’s fine. It's literally the definition of a fine movie. You’ve seen it before, you know every beat and outcome before the characters even do. Only question is how much escapism you’re looking for.

Desertman84 The original Korean title of the movie is "Oechul," roughly translating into "Outing." Its English title "April Snow," however, is much more closely related to the movie's core idea. In Korea, it's quite rare to see snow falling in April, so the title suggests a hopeful message that something miraculous might soothe an ill-fated couple and consummate their Forbidden Love.The movie starts with In-su heading for Samcheok, a seaside city on the east coast in Korea, upon hearing the news of his wife Su-jin's car accident. As his wife undergoes an operation in a hospital along with Kyung-ho who was also in the accident with her, there he meets Kyung- ho's wife Seo-young.April Snow is a film about people who experiences the pain and hurt brought about by infidelity in marriage as well as people who could relate to that pain and fell in love with each other.It tells us that pain can also bring people to fall for each other. Excellent film and highly recommended.

refresh daemon April Snow is the third film by Corean melodrama auteur Hur Jin Ho and features none other than Bae Young Jun, whose turn in the popular Corean drama series "Winter Sonata" made him an icon of the Corean Wave exported all over Asia and sometimes further. However, since I couldn't bear watching the series, my only context for the Bespectacled One was his rather capable performance in the Corean adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuses, Untold Scandal.The story is related to both the stories for In the Mood for Love and Random Hearts, in which two people come to realize that their spouses are having affairs with each other and in this shared knowledge, develop a relationship with each other. While I haven't seen Random Hearts, I can say that the same tensions that run through In the Mood for Love also run through April Snow, but they are different movies. April Snow is definitely a Hur movie, as it's primarily composed of moments of silence and watching the protagonists do what they do and seeing the subtle messages implied by how they do it.One thing that struck me while watching the relationship form between the pair was just how aware they were of the irony of their situation and how their relationship was a sort of escape for them. A strong empathy pours out between the two characters as they deal with their grief and their betrayal. But all things are not even. While the Bespectacled One's character, In Ju, should be the primary protagonist, his performance was a little underplayed which allowed Son Ye Jin's Seo Young to capture more emotion and depth, and consequently steal the focus.But, the pictures were gorgeous, the acting still good (again, Son Ye Jin really pulls it off), and the way that director Hur captures it all managed to remind me just how much I like his approach to storytelling. This is a quiet melodrama that, while reserved in expression, can't help but leak out the grief, pain, and longing in the two characters. I kind of the wish that the end of the movie cut back more like In the Mood for Love does, but I imagine that audiences more adapted to mainstream Hollywood fare will appreciate the degree of closure provided. While this isn't a masterwork like Hur's previous two films, it is still, I believe, a solid entry into his filmography. Great for lovers of art films. 8/10.

shu-fen Very quickly "In the Mood for Love" and "Random Hearts" rushed into my head while I was seeing Oechul, all three talk about cross-affair between two couples.RH truly makes me feel impatient because from story to acting, I find nothing impressive about it at all. ML is a refined and likable miniature that lures you to watch it again and again, get closer and closer (yet you may fear you get too close to it) for the beauty on the screen and also the music. And this Korean affair is one that makes you think about it once in a while even without any desire to watch it again.It is an uncommon story on two ordinary lives. The story is uncommon as its English title displays "April Snow", we do not have much snow in springtime. Ordinary is that we have no "rare" figures like Congresswoman or fiction writer but ordinary people, concert technician and housewife. (Which probability is higher: bumping into a housewife or a Congresswoman in the street?) The affair is a controlled spark, and unplanned sweet-bitter "revenge", a quiet but unforgettable episode just happens to take place at a point of their lifetime. It is an unexpected affair out from an unexpected accident of a premeditated affair. Tranquillity is the specialty of the director. All though out the film, serenity rules, even the struggle at separation (the bye-bye moment) and the embarrassment at the husband's funeral are dealt with an uneventful presentation, though their sobs for losing their love really cut one's heart.Both the endings of ML and Oechul are highly realistic in Asian culture: reunites with the spouse after the doom. Marriage in conservative cultures is generally handled with a more serious grip and tolerance. The film exhibits how mature and sensible can people manage their passion in real life. Perhaps we should feel happy for the two persons in RH. They are far much luckier as their unfaithful spouses have already been deservedly killed in the accident and the left-behinds do not have much to worry about if they decide to spend their lives together afterwards.Other works on affair like "The Bridges of Madison County" and "Brief Encounter" also sprang up my head. Robert and Francesca, Alec and Laura cannot be together at the end of their lives. What different is Seo-young and In-su have higher chance, more hope to come together again because they have time and fewer constraint. After all, no one can tell how long the wife can bear living with her betrayed husband with "shame" and "guilt" as attachment.

Stevie Cho With only two feature films, director Hur Jin-ho has won quite a huge following in Korea. Slow and quiet, his characters and stories gently let us the audience take a good look into the "things" of ordinary life. Actors and actresses in his films, no matter what level of movie-star status they may enjoy in the showbiz world, get to look and sound like your next-door neighbors in Hur's films...until this one.Mr Bae Yong-jun or 'Yon-sama' as they call in Japan these days, should probably be a good actor, capable of leading an average romance movie. Unfortunately, however, his 'larger-than-life' fame as 'Yon-sama' makes it almost impossible for me (at least) to empathize with the character he plays, which is supposed to be an ordinary man going through a life's ordeal in this movie. I couldn't help feeling very sorry about the casting choice they had to make. Throughout the movie, I kept wondering what if such and such played this role (anyone else would have been better for that matter). What I expected to see was a Hur Jin-ho film but alas...'Yon-sama' overshadows it way too much.