NOMINEE: Best Feature Film (Anthony Shim) Cleveland Film Society.
Has there been a more touching pair of combined South Korean/Canadian productions in the last year than PAST LIVES and RICEBOY SLEEPS? No definitely not. Please, keep them coming.
So while PAST LIVES is the slicker film, RICEBOY SLEEPS touches more of our emotional, sensory buttons. Themes of racism, loyalty, courage, grief and longing are explored with precision, by second time feature director Anthony Shim. Shim is exploring aspects of his own early life here. He plays a key character and conducts his original screenplay with precision.
The beauty from both within and without of Choi-Seung-yoon's, So-young will have you transfixed. Her courage in living a life to honour the gifts of life and love bestowed upon her, on her terms, in an adopted country, is inspiring. She demands we should not pity her. Shim's wonderful soundscape never fails us. 10GUMS.
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