Minari

Minari (2020)

“Ask yourself before you pee, ‘Is this a dream? Is this a dream?’” This advice, offered by Monica (Yeri Han) to her seven-year-old son David (Alan Kim) as a strategy to help him stop wetting the bed, captures something of the spirit of Minari. For, set in the rural Arkansas of the 1980s to which…

Name

Blood On Her Name (2019)

“Some things just can’t be undone,” says Leigh Tiller (Bethany Anne Lind), towards the end of Matthew Pope’s Blood On Her Name. She is talking about her particular, present predicament, but the problems in which she has become woefully entangled in fact began before – in some cases, long before – the start of the…