Adapted one of serial novel Wangnungilga by Park Young-han, A short love affair, this film is considered as a very unique part of the director Jang Sun-woo's filmography that always brings about a controversy. Compared to his other movies The Road to the Race Track, Timeless, Bottomless, and Lies, this film shows a realistic portrait of high and low days of three characters: Bae Il-do, a sewing factory worker, his live-in girlfriend, and a docile Min Gong-rye who has an affair with Bae Il-do despite that she is married and has a son in an imaginary space where city and rural area intersect, called "Umugbaemi." Like Jang Sun-woo's intention of "showing characters as they truly are" without any symbolism, this film pictures daily lives of people living on the outskirts of the city as raw, "demonstrates new realism that is closed to ordinary people's lives and the convention of the genre, and, at the same time, makes a new starting point of Korean new wave." 

The best part of this movie is the realistic three main characters and their excellent acting: Choi Myoung-gil starring as Min Gong-rye who would take off her shoes on the stairs at a motel and wash her socks in the motel room; Park Joong-hoon starring as Bae Il-do who is arrogant but would cry for Gong-rye and bear his live-in girlfriend's anger; and Yoo Hye-ri starring as an unyielding character, Jiho's mother, who would take her flirtatious husband around the town. Park Joong-hoon who became a teen idol from Springtime of Mimi and Cheol-su acts in Chil-su and Man-su then stars Bae Il-do at this film, finally working with the director Jang Sun-woo. He makes the perfect Bae Il-do who is a childish yet lovable character naturally. Also, Yoo Hye-ri, who becomes an unyielding character in an ugly work cloth by completely turning from her sexy image from the previous film Paris Emma, is acknowledged for her acting by receiving Best Supporting Actress awDaejong Film Award in that year. Nevertheless, the director Jang Sun-woo's loving attitude toward "people in Umugbaemi" may be the most significant feature, giving the audiences lasting inspiration. Unlike with Kim Pan-chok and Sung So-bi in The Age of Success, J and R in The Road to the Race Track, and Jang in A Petal, the director Jang Sun-woo understands, acknowledges, and embraces Il-do, Jiho's mother, and Gong-rye by putting himself into their places. Who would stay hating Ildo when he cries out "Call me, please, okay?" to Gong-rye who left him out of tears at a greenhouse where they meet up? 

This Blu-ray contains the stories of making the film and recollections of the director Jang Sun-woo, the main actor Park Joong-hoon, and director Kim Tae-yong who supports this film, and two tracks of commentary about Jang Sun-woo and his film philosophy by Darcy Paquet, a Korea-based American film critic, and Marc Raymond, a Korea-based cinephile. Additionally, documentaries The Jang Sun-Woo Variations and Jang Sun-woo in November by Tony Rayns, a British film critic who is a long-time fan of Jang Sun-woo, are included as supplementary to add fun. These two documentaries show Jang Sun-woo's filmography from Seoul Emperor  to Resurrection of the Little Match Girl and his time in Jeju Island after that with interviews and videos and will help understand a screenwriter who was terribly afraid of repeating himself.