If you loved April Snow, try Christmas in August
A bridge between a film you've already seen and one most people haven't. Here's what they share, and what the second one does that the first one doesn't.
What they share
Both films are directed by Hur Jin-ho, and they both carry the bittersweet, tender mood tags, and they sit in Drama / Romance territory. If that's the register that drew you to April Snow, the second film will land in a comparable space — through a different lens.
What Christmas in August is
A hospital cafeteria’s air conditioning seems to be on permanent strike. Jung-won, a photographer whose life is draining like silver halide in developer, meets a cheerful traffic cop who clocks every red light but never sees the ones in his heart. The film knows how the story ends; we just watch it blanch under fluorescent grief.

