Oasis (2002)

The film depicts a tender romance that grows between a socially maladjusted 29 year old man and a very perceptive spastic woman but which gets plundered by the misgivings of their families and the police. 

The film warmed my heart by showing the depth of love between two individuals who have always lived on the fringes - never been accepted by their families or society. I felt strange because I tried to sympathize with their love as being incomplete without accepted forms of communication and exchanges of endearment. The film made me realize, to my dismay, how over-communication kills most relationships or often feeds the illusion that there is even a relationship in the first place. The tagline of the film really does bring the point home - "Have you really loved someone?"

You can find a plot synopsis here. 

Filmic observations:

• The director probably uses winter, the season the film is shot in, as a device to show how cold society has become. 
• The film is shot with wonderful restraint consisting mostly of documentary feel shots, POV shots and some amazing quirky shots (like the one in which the spastic woman looks out of a train window and city's buildings mirror on it). 
• The editing is minimalist and unobtrusive in order to retain the dreamy quality of the film. If you are a carefree person yourself, you will enjoy the way in which the film flows.
• The music in the film is sparse and slips into certain scenes and slips out unnoticed. There are also beautiful songs which they sing to each other.
• The acting performances by Kyung-gu Sol as Jong-du Hong, the maladjusted man and Moon So-ri as Gong-ju Han, the spastic woman are so convincing that you can't imagine them as normal. They both won awards in various festivals for their work (Moon So-ri won the the Marcello Mastroianni award for best "first time" actress at the Venice Film Festival)

Some metacritic reviews if you care.