“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 ...

Korean sisters Jin and Bin—the central characters in So Yong Kim's Treeless Mountain—are young and adorable. They are emotionally fragile. None of this makes them inherently interesting as subjects of ...

So Yong Kim’s cinema can break your heart. Not by invoking the usual tearjerking music swells and dramatic crescendos, but by constructing narratives authentically attuned to the behavioral and ...

This interview was originally published as part of indieWIRE’s coverage of the 2009 Berlin Film Festival. “Treeless Mountain” opens in New York this Wednesday, April 22, while “The Exploding Girl” ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...