Metrograph

Kim drew on memories of her own adolescence for her Berlinale prize-winning debut, a delicate, unfailingly humane character study that accompanies Eun-hee (Park Ji-hu), an introverted working-class 14-year-old, as she steers through the rocky shoals of a coming-of-age in a rapidly modernizing c. 1994 Seoul, negotiating family turmoil, the first blush of same-sex romance, and the collapse of the Seongsu bridge with the help of a sympathetic cram school tutor. “Kim works like a pointillist with lots of short scenes and daubs of textured nuance that build the portrait incrementally… Discreetly balances the personal and the social, bringing us close to Eun-hee while also letting us see the other realities and truths.” —The New York Times

Distributor: Well Go USA