In Between Days.

"In Between Days the sensitive, modest, thrillingly self-assured first feature by So Yong Kim, was one of the standouts of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival - exactly the kind of thoughtful, independent work one hopes to find there and too rarely does," writes AO Scott in the New York Times. "Its theatrical release today is an encouraging sign that there is still room, even in the midst of the summer glut, for a small, serious, unpretentious film."

Updated through 6/28.

The Voice's Nathan Lee finds it "an intensely specific film about the universal yearnings of adolescence, here rendered doubly resonant through a fluent synthesis with the immigrant experience."

At the Reeler, ST VanAirsdale talks with Kim: "[S]he had just returned from a trip to Korea, where she is in development on Treeless Mountain, her semi-autobiographical follow-up about two young sisters growing up with their extended family in a small town in the 70s."

Updates, 6/28: "An exception within the still roughly circumscribed realm of Asian-American narrative cinema, So Young Kim's lovely debut succeeds in blending cultural specificity with generic humanity for a quietly revelatory portrait," writes Kristi Mitsuda at Reverse Shot. "As simplistic as that sounds, few other representations of Asian Americans - Eric Byler's Charlotte Sometimes comes to mind, along with (yes, that's right) Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle - manage to acknowledge both difference and similarity at once."

"Kim's film runs like a mistier version of Kids with a few poignant twists and clunky clichés of its own," writes Peter Keough in the Boston Phoenix.

Posted by dwhudson at June 27, 2007 1:18 PM