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The most intriguingly circumscribed romance of the year, In Between Days locates two Korean teens at a precarious point in their relationship. Director So Yong Kim deliberately shuns cultural specificity, keeping her camera tight around Aimie (Jiseon Kim), a recent immigrant from Korea, in order to stress the sense of suffocating remove that might affect a lonely young person living within the walls of a foreign city’s Koreatown. The director’s experiment in non-description can be frustrating (where are we? United States? Canada?), but it is also very poetic and humane (totally Dardennian), getting as it does to the core of the pain that comes with cultural assimilation. In Between Days is also an oddly gripping show of sexual one-upmanship, and something of a fuck-you to reprocessed cheese like When Harry Met Sally that passes for an authentic depiction of the way genders relate to one another. Aimie is fond of her friend Tran (Taegu Andy Kang), whom she tattoos as a favor to him but also as a desperate means of marking her territory, and though the boy doesn’t seem to return her feelings, that doesn’t stop him from asking her for a handjob or waiting for her to go to sleep so he can feel her up. Aimie and Tran’s relationship seems defined entirely by the games they play with each other: she quits an English course in order to buy him a bracelet, which he accepts in spite of the baggage attached to the gesture; he woos a pretty, completely Americanized Korean girl, Michelle (Gina Kim), in order to give Aimie the hint she just won’t get; and Aimie asks him to beg her to stay with him when his parents throw him out of the house. Implicit in their combativeness is a sense that Aimie’s attraction to Tran has something to do with circumstance, and that he may be denying his feelings for her out of some misguided sense of cool. Over and over again, the film brings to mind the exactingness with which Abdellatif Kechiche’s L’Esquive understood the commonality of teenage experience but also the sense of remoteness felt by young people of color who are just trying to fit in with everyone else.

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https://nitro.download/view/297E53FFE9EF354/So_Yong_Kim_-_(2006)_In_Between_Days.mkv
or
https://fikper.com/4a5kPVTXnI/So_Yong_Kim_-_(2006)_In_Between_Days.mkv

Language:Korean,English
Subtitles:English (hardcoded)

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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?

2.95GB | 1 h 29 min| 1280×720 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/C98B1A74D15C9FD/Treeless.Mountain.2008.720p.Fandor.WEB-DL.DD+2.0.H.264-Cinefeel.mkv

Language(s):Korean
Subtitles:English {Hard}

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“artdaily.org” wrote:
These two filmmakers belong to the same generation, and share an aesthetic approach and sense of humour and intimacy. Their correspondence produced an epistolary exchange that employs a minimalism of gesture and motif to follow the lives of the two filmmakers for a whole year.
Letters
1. July 26, 2010 (Eimbcke)

2. September 2010 (Kim)

3. October 25, 2010 (Eimbcke)

4. December 2010 (Kim)

5. February 8, 2011 (Eimbcke)

6. March 2011 (Kim)

7. Home – March 18, 2011 (Eimbcke)

8. April 2011 (Kim)

699MB | 0:41:04 | 704×384 | avi

https://nitroflare.com/view/12A54ED51F7A6D5/Correspondencia_-_Fernando_Eimbcke_-_So_Yong_Kim.rar

Language:Spanish, English
Subtitles:English (.srt)

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