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Love Affair: A Secret Affair

2016 · 70 min

A slow, chilly melodrama of transactional desire, where every embrace feels like a negotiation and the emptiness lingers.

Overview
Ho-je remarried Hyeon-ah. He thinks wives and girlfriends are different things and refuses to sleep with Hyeon-ah. Although she's upset, she keeps it in for the sake of his wealth and comforts herself with hosts, but she's still feeling empty inside. Meanwhile, Ho-je's daughter Ho-yeon feels something strange between her boyfriend Joo-cheol and Hyeon-ah and offers Hyeon-ah 50 million won for sleeping with her father. Hyeon-ah thinks this is the perfect chance to get rid of Ho-je's girlfriend and accepts but...

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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 2 of 3
  • darkstrength 1 of 3
  • cynicalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • betrayal
  • obsession
  • class
  • isolation
  • family
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence mild
  • Sex strong
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour1
Realism6
Romance7
Tension5
Darkness6
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, romance
Directed by
Lee Jae-sang
Starring
Kim Do-hee, Kim Sang-hyeon, Goo Min-ji, Bae Sung-joon
Runtime
70 min
Country
South Korea
Languages
Korean

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