Movie #247 ........................."Treeless Mountain"

Movie #247 "Treeless Mountain" concern these two adorable little sisters (the oldest is 6 and very undemonstrative) left alone to fend for themselves. Really, the synopsis from netflix is all it's about ------and although it is poignant in parts, oftentimes the camera is somewhere else from where I wanted to be ----- it was so much a slice of life, that I wanted so much more to the story. The director also edited the film, and I think that was a mistake, because the camera is way too slow. And as adorable these kids are, and how sad their lives are, it doesn't sustain a lot of interest in this watcher. One can see just so many grasshoppers caught, and the eldest daughter is way too quiet for my money. I know it's her major trait, but it gets tedious to watch the same expressions one frame to the next. I saw a movie about Italian kids a while back, who shared shoes so they could go to school, and it was so much better than this.





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Treeless Mountain
(2008) NR
Sisters Jin (Hee-yeon Kim) and Bin (Song-hee Kim) must fend for themselves when their mother abruptly packs her things, leaving the girls in the care of their alcoholic aunt (Mi-hyang Kim) without a word as to when she'll return. In a tale of innocence lost, the sisters try to make sense of their mother's absence. But in the meantime, 6-year-old Jin will be forced to mature far beyond her tender years. So Yong Kim writes and directs.