[Movie] ¡®I Wish I Had Wife¡¯ is a love story

¡°I Wish I Had Wife,¡± a new Korean movie, is a melodrama depicting the love story of an ordinary couple who might well exist somewhere in our everyday life.

Through the pursuit of the couple¡¯s steady changes in feelings toward each other, the film tells that love grows little by little and a devoted heart strikes the other with admiration. Director Park Heung-Shik, 36, made his debut with this work.

Won-Ju, played by actress Jeon Do-Yon, is a lecturer at a private teaching institute for middle and high school students. She is in a one-sided love with Bong-Soo, played by actor Seol Kyong-Ku, a teller at a nearby bank.

She misunderstands that he is interested in her and offers a date by writing the phrase, ¡°Will you dine out for dinner with me?¡± on a deposit withdrawal slip. But what she received only was the slip with a phrase, ¡°Don¡¯t do a naughty thing like this.¡±

Pong-Su, who could not read the mind of Won-Ju, loves a divorcee, played by actress Jin Hee-Gyeong, who is one of his classmates, and is wandering about in search of his other half. On a certain day, he found a recorded love declaration by Won-Ju in a closed-circuit video tape of the bank and accepted her love at last.

Actress Jeon, who played a career woman with urban image in ¡°Happy End,¡± is outstanding as an unmarried woman who looks somewhat dull but has a warm heart. Comic dialogues here and there make the viewers laugh, but it somewhat bores the movie fans by repeatedly showing the daily lives of the couple without any tension and dramatic reversion.

The title of this movie was quoted from the dialogue of ¡°Amarcord,¡± by Federico Fellini. It was produced by Siders. It will be screened starting Jan. 13 and permitted for 15-years-old and older.