In Between Days

Rank

Bottom 40% of all time (see others with this rank)

Festival Year

2006 (click here to see all competition films from this year)

Category

Dramatic Competition

Cast

Jiseon Kim, Taegu Andy Kang, Bok-ja Kim, Gina Kim, Mike Park

Non-Cast Credits

So Yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray, Jennifer Weiss, Sarah Levy, Andrew Choi

Description

In Between Days is the kind of distinctive filmmaking that leaves you enriched but also melancholy. It is at once a love story and a neorealist depiction of assimilation, as well as an exploration of intimacy, communication, and human need. Director So Yong Kim has fashioned an affecting, multifaceted story that resounds with quiet humanity and truth. Aimie, a recently arrived Korean immigrant teenager, has fallen in love with her best and only friend, Tran. She tries to express her feelings for him but is scared of losing their friendship. Their misunderstood affection for each other creates a delicate relationship that is challenged by the demands of living in a new country. Aimie begins to lose Tran to an Americanized Korean girl, and her world becomes more isolated until she is forced to look inside herself for answers. In Between Days reveals a visual director at work. With precise cinematography, Kim makes every moment count, using each shot to relate a piece of the story. The film also boasts an absorbing performance by Jiseon Kim as Aimie; her natural physicality relays inner emotions that say so much more than dialogue ever could. Together, director and actor create a reality that is so simple and pure it works perfectly to capture the honesty of this moving story.

Reviewer

Trevor Groth (see other films reviewed by the same reviewer)

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