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Jin (Kim Hee-yeon) and her younger sister, Bin (Song Hee Kim), are left by their mother (Soo Ah Lee) with Big Aunt (Kim Mi-Hyang). The girls'...
Treeless Mountain is a quiet, beautiful shot film that focuses on two sisters adapting to life with the sudden abandonment by their mother. Besides being adorable, the two young actresses do an outstanding job.
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Using a host of richly metaphoric details—the “treeless mountain” of the title (a mound of rubble upon which the girls “plant” a tree branch), grasshoppers trapped in a glass jar, a broken eye on the votive piggy bank—Kim subtly reinforces themes of false hope, helplessness, and the loss of childhood.
Aug 27, 2009 · Directed by Kim So-yong (김소영) Written by Kim So-yong (김소영) 89min | Release date in South Korea: 2009/08/27. This internationally acclaimed film by Kim So-yong centers on Jin, 7, and Bin, 4, who are left in the care of an alcoholic aunt while their mother searches for their missing father.
Mar 23, 2009 · Clear-sighted and unpretentious, Treeless Mountain begins as a portentous what-if scenario along the lines of Hirokazu Kore-eda’s arresting Nobody Knows. Yet the film so persuasively affixes itself to its protagonists’ outlook—in a first-person peek into a piggy bank, or a glance at an elderly woman working—that, as Jin and Bin finally ...
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