FILM SCREENINGS

In Between Days

2006. USA. Directed by So Yong Kim. Screenplay by Kim and Bradley Rust Gray. With Jiseon Kim, Taegu Andy Kang. Aimie, a newly arrived Korean immigrant, has fallen in love with her best and only friend, Tran. Fearing the loss of his friendship, she has difficulty expressing her feelings. Their fragile relationship is challenged by the demands of living in a new country, and as Aimie loses him to an Americanized Korean girl, she becomes even further isolated. It takes great directorial courage to let silences speak and realizations grow organically out of largely uneventful situations, but Kim’s trust in her material and her actors is hugely rewarded. The film’s accumulated effect is completely satisfying, visually and emotionally. The space accorded the two leads is filled with the subtle, devastating shifts of real life captured on a digital camera. 82 min.