원태연

Won Tae-yeon

writer
Feature Film

시월애

  • Siworae
  • Time-transcending love
  • Il Mare
  • by 여지나 et al., directed by 이현승
  • (at movie theaters, South Korea, 9 September 2000)
In December of 1997, when Sung-hyun moves into the newly built house-on-stilts above the tidal sand, he names it Il Mare from the Italian for “the sea”—and via a letter in the mailbox, he learns that Eun-joo wants him to forward any mail that may arrive for her, since she has just moved out . . . in December of 1999. —Michael Main
Sung-hyun! Don’t go there!
Jun Ji-hyun (as Kim Eun-ji) and Lee Jung-jae (as Han Sung-hyun ) stare longingly into each others eyes over a mailbox by the sea.
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Audience: YA and Up
  • Definite Time Travel
Feature Film

The Lake House

Letters—eventually love letters—pass back and forth between Dr. Kate Foster and architect Alex Wyler who are two years apart in time. —Michael Main
It’s kind of a long distance relationship.
Sandra Bullock (as Kate Foster in full color) and Keanu Reeves (as Alex Wyler in black-and-white) cuddle.
  • Eloi Gold Medal
  • Fantasy
  • Romance
  • Definite Time Travel