“Great” performances by very young children in movies are rare, but there are two tiny jewels at the heart of the Korean melodrama Treeless Mountain. For Treeless Mountain, So Yong Kim (In Between ...

Two resilient little sisters bear up as best they can when their desperate mom dumps them with relatives in So Yong Kim’s "Treeless Mountain," which finds the "In Between Days" filmmaker shifting ...

A 6-year-old girl sits on a bus, staring out the window as it passes unfamiliar landmarks. In the manner of children everywhere, she exhales on the glass, then draws shapes and words with a finger.

Without wallowing in sentimentality or judging any of her characters, Kim So-yong has drawn a mature portrait of an elementary school girl old before her time and a loss of childhood that rings true ...

Easter Island in the eastern Pacific is one of the remotest spots on Earth, but distance need not lend enchantment to the view. When Easter was discovered by the Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen in 1722 ...

The latest film from writer-director Kim So-yong is a simultaneously simple and complex film that straddles the line between coming-of-age drama and family tragedy. By Elizabeth Kerr, The Associated ...

Treeless Mountain is a very interesting, meditative drama. It presents a remarkable contrast to popular South Korean cinema, which is so often a very fast-paced, melodramatic experience.

So Yong Kim was born in Korea, immigrated to America as a girl and has been living in the U.S. for more than two decades. When she decided to return to Korea to make a feature film she was greeted by ...

The heart of cinema is montage. A film shows us one thing, then another, and our brains take over from there. Talking with Francois Truffaut, Alfred Hitchcock described one of his films like this: ...