Fresh
[The Film] offers a stark analysis of the human potential for random cruelty that recalls nothing less than Bresson's 'Mouchette', albeit with a denouement that holds a glimmer of optimism for the future.
David Jenkins, Time Out
Treeless Mountain
They say that when the pig is full, mom comes back...
2009 · 1h 30m · Not Rated
Drama
Directed by
Kim So-yong
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Treeless Mountain
Overview
A Korean woman leaves her two young daughters with her sister-in-law to search for their estranged father.
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Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
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86%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Somewhere in between all the emptiness -- the film's laconic chapters are separated by repeated static shots of clouds and sky -- a beautiful little point is made.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Fresh
In modest, lovingly observed ways, the director gives her characters -- and, one hazards, herself -- the gentlest gift of sweet possibility.
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post
Fresh
So Yong Kim has a real gift for putting children at ease before the camera, and her two very young actresses (who are not sisters off-screen) reward her with performances of heartbreaking realism.
Moira MacDonald, Seattle Times
Fresh
Treeless Mountain casts a sad, pellucid spell. It looks at life from three feet off the ground and meets the hardening gaze of its 6-year-old protagonist head on.
Ty Burr, Boston Globe
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