Love Me Once Again

Hye-young is a kindergarten teacher who is in a happy relationship with Shin-ho, until Shin-ho’s past is exposed when his wife and two children arrive in the city. Dismayed, she leaves him behind while he returns to his family. Eight years later, Hye-young unexpectedly reappears in his life, bringing with her the child with whom she was pregnant when she left Shin-ho.

Ben Singer: “South Korea’s biggest box office hit of the 1960s, this primal tearjerker taps bedrock melodramatic ingredients: the pathos of romantic abandonment and unwed motherhood and the traumatic destruction of the attachment bond between mother and child (ostensibly to enhance the child’s life prospects but invariably excruciating for both). Life-threatening physical abjection and cosmic coincidence fill out the blueprint. A more literal translation of the Korean title might read ‘Back Once More, Even Though You Hate Me’ or, alternatively, ‘Back Once More, Even Though I Hate You.’ Either is possible, since the title lacks grammatical subjects and objects. You decide.”

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