Alan Kim in Minari (2020) | Plan B
Minari is filled with disagreements large and small – between husband and wife, faith and disbelief, farmer and land. But perhaps none of them is as memorable as the tussle between a cheeky boy and his kooky grandmother.
Starting out as adversaries and ending up as allies even as the world around them crumbles, this unlikely duo provide the most tender moments in Lee Isaac Chung’s migration drama.
The Oscar-nominated movie, which is in both Korean and English, draws on the filmmaker’s own life. Minari revolves around a South Korean immigrant family rooted in a specific culture but also universal in its reaction to adversity.
Jumbo Film Review: Offbeat Love Story Joins Woman and Park Attraction For an Unusual Ride TheWrap 2/18/2021
love your car? And what if it loved you back? Jumbo, a movie inspired by the real-life woman who married the Eiffel Tower, claiming she d fallen passionately in love with it, is Belgian writer-director Zoé Wittock s fractured fairy tale of a feature debut about a withdrawn young woman played by Portrait of a Lady on Fire star Noémie Merlant, who develops deep emotional feelings for her local park s newest passenger-spinning, brightly illuminated ride.
While it s easy to imagine filmmakers from all parts of the outcast-fantasy firmament responding with glee at the cinematic doorways waiting to be opened if Jumbo shows post-festival life Spielberg, Cronenberg, start your human-loves-thing engines! Wittock s film is ultimately more of a well-intended melodramatic experiment than a fully realized love story about one of the more curious corners of humanity s se