What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for... (Full plot summary below)
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What is the nature of childhood resilience? Sisters Jin and Bin, ages 6 and 3, live with their mother. Jin likes school and does well. One day, their mother leaves the girls with their father's sister, a woman they do not know. The mother seeks a reconciliation with their father. She leaves them a plastic piggy bank, promising to return when the bank is full. The girls scrub and clean for their aunt, a tippler who's often cranky and complaining. She gives them a few coins for their work. They earn more money catching, grilling, and selling grasshoppers. They miss their mother. The bank fills. They watch for her from a mound of dirt. Will she return? Will stoic faces give way to a smile?
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| Boxoffice MagazineSara Maria VizcarrondoI crossed. It's the sort of "slice of life" that defies words, which is perhaps why these little girls and their overwhelmingly grey world are rendered in such quietude. |
| Houston ChronicleG. Allen JohnsonSo Yong Kim has made another minimalist masterpiece, a quiet movie of sharply observed details and two girls who will break your heart. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatA wonder-inducing drama about a six-year-old Korean girl who takes on adult responsibilities when she and her little sister are abandoned by their mother. |
| Daily Telegraph (UK)Sukhdev SandhuLike breath on the window of a late-night bus, Treeless Mountain is a work of diaphanous and fugitive beauty. |
| Denver PostLisa KennedyIn modest, lovingly observed ways, the director gives her characters -- and, one hazards, herself -- the gentlest gift of sweet possibility. |
| Combustible CelluloidJeffrey M. AndersonThe big payoff moment is so small and passes so quietly that it's almost unbearably beautiful. |
| Filmcritic.comChris Cabinvery real magic emanates from Treeless Mountain like vapor from a block of dry ice |
| Village VoiceJ. HobermanTreeless Mountain is skillfully unsentimental--because of, but also despite, the presence of two irresistible, unself-conscious performers in virtually every scene. |
| Boston GlobeTy BurrFeels both masterful and hesitant - it’s the work of a born filmmaker who’s still not quite sure what she wants to say. |
| ArtforumAmy TaubinWhat makes this slight narrative compelling is that it is told entirely from the children's point of view, synced to their perceptions and to the mercurial emotions that color them. |
