Subtle and unsentimental, Korean-American writer-director So Yong Kim, a multimedia artist, parses the halting assimilation of a Korean teen caught between her childhood back home and the fresh start she's not quite making in Toronto with her harried single mother.
So's minimalist feature debut is the video version of a bright, unsophisticated, self-centered teenage girl's diary, which is both praise and warning: The action is minimal and it's preoccupied with richly imagined psychodrama. Plump, tentative Aimie (Jiseon Kim) lacks both English-language fluency and the sassy, pop-culture-saturated confidence of more established immigrants her own age, and her ...
Released:
2006
Rated:
NR
Length:
82 mins