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Quick Info

Rating

7.4/10

Release2000

Runtime1h 36m

StatusReleased

Budget$25,000,000

RevenueN/A

Production

Blue Cinema

Dream Venture Capital

UniKorea Pictures

Sidus

Movie

Il Mare

2000

1h 36m

7.4

Fantasy

Drama

Romance

Synopsis

In the year 1999, a young woman leaves her quaint seaside house and returns to the city, leaving in the mailbox a card for the next owner, with instructions to forward any mail of hers to the new address. In the year 1997, a jaded young architect moves into the same house and finds the letter. His reply, which he slips into the mailbox, finds its way to her, beginning a parallel-time love story separated by a span of two years.

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