Film Review: Heartbreak Library

October 07, 2008 Before there was J- or K-horror, Asian cinema had established a strong tradition of the romantic, desexualized weepy, usually colored by youthful nostalgia or tragedy -- preferably both. "Heartbreak Library" is a solid if unspectacular entry into the burgeoning genre that covers its bases efficiently, though it's burdened with a bland male lead and doesn't allow its charming female star much room to move. "Heartbreak Library" has a chance at moderate boxoffice success in Asia, if only based on exactly this kind of film's popularity there.

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