
On the verge of coming of age. Aimie is perhaps 18, a Korean immigrant in Canada. It's winter, snow crunches beneath her feet. She lives with her mother. She studies English and doesn't seem to be a particularly good student. Tran is her best friend, and he wouldn't mind if their relationship becomes sexual. She declines, then worries that he might find a more willing girlfriend. Her mother broaches the subject of remarriage. Aimie misses her father, sending him messages to c... (Full plot summary below)
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On the verge of coming of age. Aimie is perhaps 18, a Korean immigrant in Canada. It's winter, snow crunches beneath her feet. She lives with her mother. She studies English and doesn't seem to be a particularly good student. Tran is her best friend, and he wouldn't mind if their relationship becomes sexual. She declines, then worries that he might find a more willing girlfriend. Her mother broaches the subject of remarriage. Aimie misses her father, sending him messages to come and visit. What does she have she can count on?
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| Entertainment WeeklyLisa SchwarzbaumWith In Between Days, the filmmaker captures feminine melancholy with rare precision. Find this movie. |
| Chicago ReaderJoshua KatzmanKim keeps dialogue to a minimum and provides the barest of story arcs, using a handheld camera to probe subtle shifts of emotion in her nonprofessional actors. |
| EmanuelLevy.ComEmanuel LevyCentering on a young immigrant Korean girl in Toronto, this Sundance indie marks the feature debut of a gifted female director. |
| Deseret News (Salt Lake City)Jeff Vice[It] feels honest and direct, which is more than you can say about a lot of movies these days. |
| L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThis superb debut feature by Korean-American director So Yong Kim seems to be constructed entirely of the ineffable and intangible, those fleeting moments that most movies treat as throwaways. |
| Ozus' World Movie ReviewsDennis SchwartzThere's an authenticity about this work that gives it a chilling flavor. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsMark R. LeeperIn Between Days is shot in a documentary-like style, but some of the artistic decisions do not always work in the film's favor. |
| Film ThreatEric CamposThe camera lingers on the characters' minimal, but expressive actions, allowing the viewer to soak in their emotions rather than having them related to us through dialogue. In doing so, In Between Days is more of an experience than your average movie. |
| The New York TimesA.O. ScottSensitive, modest, thrillingly self-assured first feature by So Yong Kim, was one of the standouts of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival -- exactly the kind of thoughtful, independent work one hopes to find there and too rarely does. |
| TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonaghA small slice of a suspended life, intimate and filled with the mundane details most people forget when the waiting is over and their real lives begin. |