“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…
Writer/director Kim Yong-hoon’s feature debut Beasts Clawing At Straws (Jipuragirado japgo sipeun jimseungdeul) opens with a bravura tracking shot. A person walks into a sauna complex, and places a Louis Vuitton bag into a locker – and the mobile camera cleaves not so much to the person (who is mostly out of shot) as to…