Treeless Mountain director So Yong Kim

Published: Oct. 2, 2009, 3:01 p.m.

Colin Marshall talks to So Yong Kim, director of In Between Days, winner of the 2006 Sundance Film Festival\u2019s Special Jury Prize for Independent Vision, and more recently Treeless Mountain,\nwhich is now available on DVD. The story of two very young sisters in\nSeoul left with their distant aunt while their mother searches for\ntheir absent father, the film belongs solidly to the realist tradition\nwhile evoking the scale, perspective and feel of childhood. The New\nYork Times\u2018 A.O. Scott calls Treeless Mountain one of the \u201cvital, urgent and timely\u201d vanguard members of the new genre of \u201cneo-neorealism.\u201d