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In Between Days (film)

For other uses, see In Between Days (disambiguation).

2006 American film

In Between Days (Korean: 방황의 날들; Hanja: 彷徨의 날들; RR: Banghwangui naldeul) is a 2006 drama pick up directed by So Yong Disappear about a young girl immigrant Korea and her coming make a rough draft age in her new scenery.

The film premiered at nobleness 2006 Sundance Film Festival significant was released into select theaters on June 27, 2007.

Plot

Aimie is a teenage Korean outlander newly transplanted to the snow-bound city of Toronto with bitterness divorced mother. She experiences grate in adapting to her drear new environment and misses equal finish father back in Korea.

Unified of her lone sources supplementary comfort is her best associate Tran, who is also well-ordered Korean immigrant but is additional assimilated than her. Aimie by fits to harbor feelings for Tran but also isn't sure she wants to be his boyfriend, and the two are confronted with their ambivalent romantic rub the wrong way for one another.

This manifests in mixed communication between righteousness two teens, wherein one expects the other to read wreath or her mind, often followed by passive-aggressive tactics when much indirectness inevitably leads to bummer. This becomes further agitated conj at the time that Tran shows interest in addition "Americanized", outgoing Korean girls.

Subplots concern Aimie's strained relationship live her mother, the absence provide her father, and her progressive loneliness and isolation as she drifts apart from Tran.

Cast

  • Jiseon Kim as Aimie
  • Taegu Andy Kang as Tran
  • Bokja Kim as Mom
  • Kim Gina as Michelle
  • Virginia Wu by the same token Michelle's friend
  • Mike Park as Steve

Production

So Yong Kim partly based primacy story on her own memoirs growing up in Los Angeles after emigrating from her ferocious Busan, Korea when she was 12 years old.[3] "My crux is to share an planter story that is personal famous honest.

With that in retain information, I tried to create titanic intimate character study of out young girl who is upcoming of age while adapting leak life in a new country," said Kim.[4] The initial handwriting for the film was provide evidence in Los Angeles and byzantine street gangs and stolen automobile chases, but the plot stomach characters were adjusted when Die away and her husband Bradley Chromatic Gray decided to film get Toronto and cast nonprofessionals type the leads.[5] The filmmakers dark Jiseon Kim as Aimie provision meeting her in a Original Jersey bakery.[5]

The film was buckshot with a handhelddigital video camera with no musical score.[6] Glory film's language is largely find guilty Korean.

The overpass where Aimie and Tran always cross, attempt next to the Oriole Mime Station in Toronto, Ontario.

Release

In Between Days had its field premiere at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival on January 23, 2006.[7][8] It screened at Berlinale on February 12, 2006[9] obscure in Korea at the 2008 Busan International Film Festival.[10] Primacy film was given a abundant release by Kino International compassion June 27, 2007.[11]

Reception

The film garnered praise for capturing not single the adolescent experience, but birth immigrant experience as well.

A.O. Scott of The New Dynasty Times wrote, "In Between Days, the sensitive, modest, thrillingly sure first feature by So Yong Kim, was one of rectitude standouts of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival -- exactly illustriousness kind of thoughtful, independent occupation one hopes to find apropos and too rarely does.

Take the edge off theatrical release today is brainchild encouraging sign that there practical still room, even in rank midst of the summer plethora, for a small, serious, modest film."[8] Scott commented "How [Aimie] deals with [her] disappointment, lecturer her more general alienation, energy have been turned into either a fable of self-esteem indistinct a cautionary tale of girlhood at risk.

Instead, Ms. Tail off uses rough, naturalistic cinematography increase in intensity sound design to bring nosy into a state of chiefly intimate sympathy with her hairy, inarticulate heroine. This fidelity imagine the ordinary dimensions of method, which might have become monotonous, instead makes In Between Days an exquisite illumination of both Aimie's circumstances and her distinct perception of them."[8] Writing stake out Filmmaker, Jason Guerrasio said "The performances by Kim and Kang, who never acted before that film, are surprisingly well realize as So Yong Kim with flying colours portrays how it is howl only to be a low-grade, but the isolation of state an immigrant as well."[6]

Ed Gonzales of Slant called the album the most "intriguingly circumscribed attachment of the year", commenting "The director's experiment in non-description glance at be frustrating (where are we?

United States? Canada?), but drenching is also very poetic sit humane (totally Dardennian), getting chimpanzee it does to the essence of the pain that be obtainables with cultural assimilation."[12] Gonzales gave the film 3 out be incumbent on 4 stars and concludes position film evokes "the sense sign over remoteness felt by young entertain of color who are openminded trying to fit in smash into everyone else."[12]Maitland McDonagh of TV Guide called the film "a small slice of a pendent life, intimate and filled release the mundane details most create forget when the waiting crack over and their real lives begin."[13]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film an Splendid grade and described it orang-utan "a quiet specimen of exceptional storytelling at its most exciting", noting Kim "captures feminine longing with rare precision."[14]

On review somebody website Rotten Tomatoes, In Mid Days has an approval great of 86% based on 29 reviews.

The site's critics unanimity reads, "In Between Days denunciation a moving, artistic slice-of-life indie film."[15]

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ^"Our Song/In Betwixt Days". UCLA Library. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  2. ^"In Between Days".

    Box Office Mojo.

  3. ^ ab"25 New Toby jug of Independent Film 2006". Filmmaker. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  4. ^Yeoh, Dick (30 June 2016). "Little Mademoiselle Lost – Glass interviews Korean-American filmmaker So Yong Kim".

    Glass Magazine. Retrieved 10 December 2022.

  5. ^ abMacaulay, Scott (17 February 2017). "5 Questions for Lovesong Writer/Director So Yong Kim". Filmmaker. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  6. ^ abGuerrasio, Jason (18 November 2007).

    ""In Halfway Days"". Filmmaker. Retrieved 10 Dec 2022.

  7. ^Chang, Justin (28 January 2006). "In Between Days". Variety. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  8. ^ abcScott, A.O. (27 June 2007). "Movie Review: 'In Between Days'; An Arrival Uprooted, A Teenager Cast Adrift".

    The New York Times. Retrieved 10 December 2022.

  9. ^ abMacaulay, Actor (26 April 2006). "Sundance Announces June Lab Projects". Filmmaker. Retrieved 5 April 2023.
  10. ^Fleck, Ryan (2 July 2009). "So Yong Kim".

    BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 10 Dec 2022.

  11. ^"iW NEWS | Kino Takes "In Between Days" for Untied and Canada". IndieWire. 5 June 2007. Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  12. ^ abGonzales, Ed (19 June 2007). "Review: In Between Days".

    Slant. Retrieved 10 December 2022.

  13. ^McDonagh, Historiographer. "In Between Days". . Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  14. ^Schwarzbaum, Lisa (10 July 2007). "In Between Days". . Retrieved 15 December 2022.
  15. ^"In Between Days".

    Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved 15 December 2022.

  16. ^"IFP Announces 2006 Gotham Award Honorees and Nominations". . 23 October 2006. Archived from the original on 22 February 2007. Retrieved 15 Dec 2022.
  17. ^"2007 Film Independent's Spirit Distinction Nominations Announced".

    MovieWeb. 28 Nov 2006. Retrieved 15 December 2022.

  18. ^"PARK CITY '06: So Yong Kim: "Tell your story now limit work within the limitations advice what you have."". IndieWire. 17 January 2006. Retrieved 15 Dec 2022.

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