My Lovely Week (All for Love) (2005) Naesaengae Gajang Areumdawun Iljuil

Original title: Naesaengae Gajang Areumdawun Iljuil (내 생애 가장 아름다운 일주일)

Country: South Korea

Year: 2005

Genre: Drama

IMDB Rating: 7.4 ^{128 votes}

Plot: Plot Synopsis : This movie deals with 5 couples; An elderly couple, the guy owning an old cinema and the lady owning a coffee shop in front of his theatre. A down on his luck salesman, who just got married, keeping it a secret from his wife that he sneaks onto the subway and tries to peddle his trinkets to subway passengers. A bill collector that is fed up with his job (who tries to collect from the down on his luck salesman) is offered a spot on a local reality television to relive his college basketball days and also fulfill the wish of a terminally ill girl who’s dead mother told her that her father was that basketball player. A divorced father that works in the music industry, with only a son in his life needs to find a maid, his divorced wife, a fiery spirited psychiatrist, who has perhaps met her match in a rough and tumble cop. Finallly a famous male pop singer that becomes stricken with a mysterious illness after his contract is cancelled by the music executive dad, meets a young nun who tried to killed herself because she has always had strong feelings for the hosptialized pop singer. This is a lovely week in the lives of these people.

Comments : A fun, fast paced romantic comedy in the spirit of the British film “Love Actually.” There is quite a handful of characters in this film that cross paths, so you should pay careful attention in the beginning or keep a scorecard of some kind. Anyways the film is a very fast paced comedy, with no dull moments. The relationship between the psychiatrist and the cop, the pop singer and the former nun, and the down on his luck salesmen & his wife, were my favorite characters in this movie.
Alright, this is the part where I will get to formally introduce the copyrighted “Lunapark6 K-Comedy 3/4 Rule.” What the “Lunapark6 K-Comedy 3/4 Rule” states is that within any Korean comedy, at approximately the 3/4th mark of the film’s running time, the comedy will temporary cease to be a comedy and become a serious drama, dealing with a tragedy usually in the realm of a pregnancy, abortion, terminal illness, or death of a close family member. Once the tragedy is resolved, it will revert back to a comedy until the film finishes. In “My Lovely Week” the “Lunapar6 K-Comedy 3/4 Rule” governs as usual, this time bringing up the serious subject of matter of unexpected pregnancy and the mother’s decision to keep the baby or have an abortion.

from Lunapark6

Language: Korean

Colormode: Color

Running time: 127