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Minari

Most-Anticipated Sundance Film Festival 2020

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Original title: Minari
Year: 2020
Running time: 115 min.
Country: United States
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Screenwriter: Lee Isaac Chung
Music: Emile Mosseri
Cinematography: Lachlan Milne
Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung, Alan S. Kim, Noel Cho, Will Patton, Scott Haze, Eric Starkey, Esther Moon
Producer: Plan B Entertainment. Distributed by A24
Genre: Drama | Independent Film (US). Small Town Life (North-american). Immigration. Childhood. 1980s
Synopsis / Plot: David, a 7-year-old Korean-American boy, gets his life turned upside down when his father decides to move their family to rural Arkansas and start a farm in the mid-1980s, in this charming and unexpected take on the American Dream.

Awards: 2020: Sundance Film Festival: Best Film & Audience Award - U.S. Drama Competition

Critics' reviews

"The charming low-key humor and the actors are all winning without being coy or cutesy. A modest film but very human and accessible"

Todd McCarthy: The Hollywood Reporter
"A gentle, sweet, and yet staggeringly powerful story (...) [It] interrogates the American Dream with the hard-edged hope of a family that needs to believe in something before they lose all faith in each other"

David Ehrlich: IndieWire
"Chung has hit a peak as a filmmaker that might have been unthinkable just a few years ago. As the family in 'Minari' also learns, experience and perspective are often the greatest gifts of all."

Gregory Ellwood: The Playlist
"[It] works quietly and methodically, embracing its lush rural setting with striking glimpses of its characters, alone against vast and empty landscapes."

David Canfield: Entertainment Weekly
"Chung transforms the specificity of his upbringing into something warm, tender and universal."

Peter Debruge: Variety
"A loving, delicately crafted portrait (...) a special experience that should resonate with audiences"

Anthony Kaufman: Screendaily

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