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TREELESS MOUNTAIN
“Simply one of the best films about childhood ever made! Remarkable performances.”
Melissa Anderson, Village Voice“(A) neo-realist gem!” – Stephen Holden, The New York Times
Writer/Director: So-yong Kim
Cinematographer: Anne Misawa
Editor: So-yong Kim, Bradley Rust Gray
Music: Asobi Seksu
Cast: Hee-yeon Kim, Mi-hyang Kim, Song-hee Kim, Soo-ah Lee
Genre: Drama
Synopsis: When their mother needs to leave in order to find their estranged father, six-year-old Jin and her younger sister, Bin, are left to live with their Big Aunt for the summer. With only a small piggy bank and their mother’s promise to return when it is full, the two young girls are forced to acclimate to changes in their family life. Counting the days, and the coins, the two bright-eyed young girls eagerly anticipate their mother’s homecoming. But when the bank fills up, and with their mother still not back, Big Aunt decides that she can no longer tend to the children. Taken to live on their grandparent’s farm, it is here that Jin comes to learn the importance of family bonds in this beautiful, meditative, and thought-provoking second feature from So Yong Kim, the acclaimed director of IN BETWEEN DAYS. Variety’s Robert Koehler said of Kim’s film: “drawing out beautifully natural performances from her child actors, Kim once again has a distinct way of letting her camera observe her characters with kind thoughtfulness, allowing for a quiet mood to wash over the scenes.”
Screening:
Sunday • Academy Art Museum • 5:00pm • 89min • Q&A with Linda Delibero (CFF Film Advisory Board)
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Linda DeLibero (CFF Film Advisory Board) is Associate Director of the Film and Media Studies program at Johns Hopkins University where she has been teaching film since 1989. Her research and teaching areas include film history and theory; ideology and film/television/popular culture; mass culture studies; and issues in film education and historiography. She has published and lectured widely on contemporary film; the history of television theory and criticism; women, class and popular culture; and media education. Current research interests include a history of the divide between popular and academic film discourse, and the aesthetics of violence in Hollywood film. She is currently writing a book on Marlon Brando for Yale's Icons of America series.
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SINGLE SCREENING
$8 – available before Sat., 9/19 • $10 at the door
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