By Chlotrudis Independent Film Society
Rating: 4 cats
Director: So Yong Kim
Starring: Chae Gil Byung | Hee-yeon Kim | Jung Gil Ja | Kim Mi Jung | Mi-hyang Kim | Shin Hyun Je
Original language title: Na-moo-eobs-neun san
Country: south_korea, united_states
Year: 2009
Running time: 89
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1143155/
Diane says: “TREELESS MOUNTAIN is a Korean film about two little girls whose mother dumps them with relatives. The seven- and five-year-old leads (no acting experience) are just extraordinary, as is American director So Yong Kim for bringing out these perfs. Just as lively as the similarly themed NOBODY KNOWS (which is to say, slow), but shorter, and not as harsh, TREELESS gives us the slow destruction of a girl’s spirit, but that’s not where it ends. Noms coming for the older Hee Yeon Kim, the director, and adapted screenplay. Now to see Kim’s acclaimed 2007 story of a Korean teen new to the U.S., IN BETWEEN DAYS. 4 cats”