Cream, a bright personality with a dark streak somehow manages to make a connection with the secretive K. As high school classmates, they share their loneliness, get close quickly, and fill the emptiness in each other. Cream moves into K’s place and they depend on each other like a family or lovers. Years go by, and K works for a record company and Cream becomes a lyricist, but they still live together, neither a couple nor friends. Diagnosed with leukemia, K is hesitant to reveal his illness because he does not want to hurt Cream by leaving her alone. Not knowing any of this, Cream starts dating another man, eventually accepting his marriage proposal. As a Taiwanese remake of a Korean film, More Than Blue is familiar with twists and a melodramatic story, but it stimulates tears by strongly evoking Taiwan′s unique emotions. And familiar storytelling is disarmed by the chemistry of Liu Yi-hao and Chen Yi-han, who starred in Paradise in Service, the opening film of BIFF 2014. A perfect love story for this lonesome fall. (Kim Young-Woo)