This is a story told twice, with small differences that butterfly into vastly different endings. The key difference is honesty. The lesson is to be honest with yourself and to be honest with each other. The structure is interesting and engaging. It takes two excellent performances for a movie like this to work. The acting differences are so subtle but have profound implications. It's kind of slow at times but in retrospect it was quite beautiful. Perhaps made even more so by the fact that they never consummate their brief affair in either version.
I admit it is a little awkward watching this story unfold knowing about the affair between married director Hong Sang-soo and lead actress Kim Min-hee that began in the production of this movie. The premise of the movie is there is a married movie director who falls in love with a beautiful woman he encounters while in town for a local film festival. There's something Woody Allen-esque about it, in that life imitates art imitates life (imitates art?).
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