Minari
2020
***½
Director: Lee Isaac Chung
Cast: Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton
In the early 1980s, a Korean immigrant couple and their two children move to Arkansas to farm a piece of land. The economic hardship and various health issues in the family begin to take their toll on the parents and their marriage. Lee Isaac Chung's semiautobiographical drama is subtle, charming, and refreshingly free of clichés, even if it doesn't add up to anything earth-shattering. Youn Yuh-jung, who plays the grandmother, won an Academy Award for her warm performance.
