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Courtesy of A24 Director Lee Isaac Chung (right) discusses a scene with Will Patton and Yeun. Patton plays a devout Christian whom Yeun hires as a farmhand. The writer-director revisits his familial inspirations like Ben Hur and making the Korean-American coming of age film on my terms and to not leave anything behind. Minari, which opens today, is the most autobiographical film of this award season a distinction that only highlights how painstakingly, yet disarmingly, the multigenerational drama was made. Writer-director Lee Isaac Chung mined his unusual Korean-American childhood in rural Arkansas, where his father took his family for a chance at a homesteading dream, to tell an intimate yet visually sweeping tale about an immigrant couple, Jacob and Monica (played by Steven Yeun, Chung s cousin-by-marriage, and Yeri Han), with two young children (newcomers Noel Cho and Alan Kim) whose aspirations will make or break their fragile marriage. Things get further complicated whe

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