Notes on…

Minari(2021)

Dir. Directed by Lee Isaac Chung


[The] concern — and immense pressure — for Asian representation in mainstream culture can be its own form of erasure, performing the very “model minority” myth that it is trying to overcome.

Hannah Amaris Roh (LA Review of Books)

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A Korean American family moves to an Arkansas farm in search of its own American dream. Amidst the challenges of this new life in the strange and rugged Ozarks, they discover the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.