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Treeless Mountain
Directed by
So Yong Kim
Not Rated
2008
90m
Drama
7.0
86%
72%
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In Seoul, Korea, two sisters must look after each other when their mother leaves them to search for their estranged father.
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Cast of Treeless Mountain
Kim Hee-yeon
Jin
Kim Seong-hee
Bin
Kim Mi-hyang
Aunt
Lee Soo-ah
Mother
Treeless Mountain Ratings & Reviews
Denver Post
Lisa Kennedy
In modest, lovingly observed ways, the director gives her characters -- and, one hazards, herself -- the gentlest gift of sweet possibility.
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
So Yong Kim has a real gift for putting children at ease before the camera, and her two very young actresses (who are not sisters off-screen) reward her with performances of heartbreaking realism.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Treeless Mountain casts a sad, pellucid spell. It looks at life from three feet off the ground and meets the hardening gaze of its 6-year-old protagonist head on.
Houston Chronicle
G. Allen Johnson
So Yong Kim has made another minimalist masterpiece, a quiet movie of sharply observed details and two girls who will break your heart.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
In the end, this melancholy, inspiriting movie achieves a breathtaking emotional harmoniousness.
Los Angeles Times
Ella Taylor
Kim is deft and sensitive with her tiny co-stars, but Treeless Mountain lacks the freshness and surprise of In Between Days.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Both lovely and wrenching, So Yong Kim's intimate drama feels so honest, it's often difficult to watch.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Drawing out beautifully natural performances from her child actors, Kim once again has a distinct way of letting her camera observe her characters with kind thoughtfulness, allowing for a quiet mood to wash over the scenes.
The Simon
Tim Grierson
A series of plotless, episodic incidents that slowly build to understated emotional crescendos.
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
Somewhere in between all the emptiness -- the film's laconic chapters are separated by repeated static shots of clouds and sky -- a beautiful little point is made.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
With Treeless Mountain, Kim establishes herself as a first-class filmmaker.
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
..the film is tender, touching and charming, a portrait of quiet resilience and sisterly devotion...
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
The problem with this American indie filmed in Korea is that, despite the captivating faces and sad predicament of these little girls, nothing much happens.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Skillfully unsentimental -- because of, but also despite, the presence of two irresistible, unself-conscious performers in virtually every scene.
New York Magazine/Vulture
David Edelstein
Is it fair for the director to strip away so much and leave us feeling so helpless? I'm still in pain; I don't know.
Slant Magazine
Nick Schager
A work of tremendous poise and poignancy that assumes and articulates the perspective and emotional tenor of its two juvenile protagonists.
AV Club
Noel Murray
At times, Treeless Mountain almost feels like a fairy tale -- but without the magic.
New York Press
Eric Kohn
Deeply rooted in the perspectives of its ill-fated heroines, Treeless Mountain finds a place in the modern abandoned-child narratives alongside Ramin Bahrani's Chop Shop and the inferior period piece Blame It On Fidel.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Treeless Mountain has the tang of real life, though this is realism that has been filtered through 60 or so years of world art cinema.
Creative Loafing
Matt Brunson
Interesting if occasionally limiting.
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