Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 115m
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton
Synopsis:
A Korean family transplants from California to Arkansas to fulfil the husband's dream of growing Korean vegetables and working outdoors. The besetting problem of water, the wife's lack of enthusiasm and the son's heart murmur all put a strain on the family dynamic, but when they are joined by Grandma there are fresh perspectives and challenges.
Review:
For autobiographical reasons the story is set in the 1980s, though you would barely know save for TV images. It's a gently paced picture of rural struggle, though it has none of the life or death flavour of a Jean de Florette. Instead it centres on the quirky relationship of the boy and his Grandma, who is eccentric enough for the child to consider her 'not a proper Grandma', and that of the husband and wife, very much on the line with success or failure. In this sense perhaps the tragic denouement effects a potential reconciliation, and a change of direction towards more practical/traditional farming methods?
Country: US
Technical: col/2.39:1 115m
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton
Synopsis:
A Korean family transplants from California to Arkansas to fulfil the husband's dream of growing Korean vegetables and working outdoors. The besetting problem of water, the wife's lack of enthusiasm and the son's heart murmur all put a strain on the family dynamic, but when they are joined by Grandma there are fresh perspectives and challenges.
Review:
For autobiographical reasons the story is set in the 1980s, though you would barely know save for TV images. It's a gently paced picture of rural struggle, though it has none of the life or death flavour of a Jean de Florette. Instead it centres on the quirky relationship of the boy and his Grandma, who is eccentric enough for the child to consider her 'not a proper Grandma', and that of the husband and wife, very much on the line with success or failure. In this sense perhaps the tragic denouement effects a potential reconciliation, and a change of direction towards more practical/traditional farming methods?
