This film is about the quest of love of a young man. It is extremely realistic, especially in the description of a self-cantered central character who seems always a little surprised at what is happening to him.    The film is NOT a romantic comedy. It is not even a comedy, or a drama, or whatever category you usually put movies in. It is a transposition of life, with all its ambiguities, its unaccomplished desires, its eternal quests.    The direction is minimalist but effective. The acting is sublime. If you are not worried to watch a movie which shows things that might be happening to you, go and see it. --http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0313550/From the Korean director of The Power of Kangwon Province and Virgin Stripped Bare By Her Bachelors, On The Occasion of Remembering The Turning Gate is another deceptively straightforward examination of the mechanics of relationships with the associated themes of loneliness and inability to communicate that Hong Sang-soo does so well.    Kim Kyungsoo is an out of work actor. He has had some success on the screen but is better known for stage work. After he is dropped from a new film project, his life becomes a bit aimless and he leaves Seoul to visit a friend Sungwoo, in Chuncheon. On a boat trip on Lake Soyang, he is told the legend of a man who has been turned into a snake, but continues his pursuit of a princess and winds himself around her. The princess escapes into a temple and the snake is caught in a rainstorm and turns away at the place that is now called the Turning Gate.    Kyungsoo is an unusual character to have as a lead in a film, as he doesn t seem to have much character or personality. At least not when off the stage. He is not very eloquent and his character is revealed by his clumsy attempts at communication and his awkwardness in social situations. He is considered a good actor by women he meets, who are initially attracted to him presumably because of his looks and modest fame, but he is not regarded highly by other people in his profession. Women are particularly unfathomable to him. He is unable to be the person Myungsuk wants him to be and escapes from Chuncheon when her attentions become too much for him. Travelling back to Seoul on the train he meets Sunyoung, and tries to be the person Myungsuk wanted him to be, but Sunyoung has a different image of him based on an event in their childhood. The person Kyungsoo wants to be for her is at odds with this preconceived image Sunyoung has created in her mind and trying to wrap himself into her life, Kyungsoo soon finds himself at his own Turning Gate. --http://www.dvdtimes.co.uk/content.php?contentid=3676