House of Hummingbird (Beol-sae)
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Set against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Seoul in 1994, a lonely 14-year-old Eun-hee moves through life like a hummingbird searching for a taste of sweetness wherever she may find it. Deprived of attention from her family, she roams the neighborhood with her best friend, attempts romantic relationships with both girls and boys alike and is sent to the hospital with an unclear diagnosis. When Young-ji, a new teacher, arrives, she becomes the first adult Eun-hee feels really understands her.
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- Ji-hu Park
- Sae-byeok Kim
- Seung-Yun Lee
- In-gi Jeong
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Metacritic
Jun 25, 2020
Sensitive and lived-in and strong in ways that a more forceful version of this story could never have been, Bora’s debut sketches a portrait of a girl coming into her own strength, and learning to see the blank page of her life as an opportunity rather than a death sentence.
David Ehrlich
IndieWire
Jun 25, 2020
Kim works like a pointillist with lots of short scenes and daubs of textured nuance that build the portrait incrementally.
Manohla Dargis
The New York Times
Jun 19, 2020
The film meanders a bit, and dawdles a bit more. But its compelling and unblinking portrait of a girl’s life, her expectations, prospects, obstacles and second class status.
Roger Moore
Movie Nation
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