Minari
Synopsis
A tender and sweeping story about what roots us, Minari follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, Minari shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
- International Title:Minari
- Distributed in:Argentina, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, México, Perú
- Gender:Emotion
- Actors:Steven Yeun, Yeri Han, Yuh-jung Youn
- Director:Lee Isaac Chung
- Release date: To be confirmed
Characters
- Steven Yeun: Jacob
- Yeri Han: Monica
- Yuh-jung Youn: Soonja
- Alan S. Kim: David
- Noel Cho: Anne
- Will Patton: Paul
Awards and honours
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL 2020
Winner| Grand Jury Prize
Winner| Audience Award
GOLDEN GLOBES 2021
Winner| Best Picture - Foreign Language
OSCARS 2021
Nominee| Best Picture
Nominee| Best Director
Nominee| Best Original
Nominee| Best Actor in a Leading Role - Steven Yeun
Nominee| Best Actress in a Supporting Role - Youn Yuh-jung
Nominee| Best Original Score
Criticism in media
Diamond recommendation
Amazing performance of Steven Yeun
A movie that makes you think about inmigration and "the american dream"
Development and Production
“Writing Minari had the feeling of a last-ditch effort, because what I was thinking was: if I could leave behind one story for my daughter to see, what would I want it to be?” Chung says. “I wrote down eighty visual memories from when I was right around my daughter’s age. They ranged from my parents’ heated arguments in Arkansas, to a man who worked for my father dragging a cross around town, to my grandmother burning down half our farm. Looking through them I thought, maybe this is the story I’ve wanted to tell all along.”
“Too often you see people in American films speaking English who would not in their real lives. But I think the more authentically a film depicts the details of how people really live, the more meaningful it is,” he explains. “There’s a dissonance to speaking Korean at home that you can’t get at any other way.”
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