Minari
Academy Award × 1
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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.
What critics thought
Minari earned near-universal admiration on release, with critics singling out its specificity — the texture of 1980s rural Arkansas, the unsentimentalized childhood performances, the quietly radical choice to center a Korean American family's story without softening it for outside audiences. The aggregate enthusiasm is unusually cohesive: the rare case where festival buzz translated into sustained critical conviction rather than backlash.
“Minari is modest, specific and thrifty, like the lives it surveys. There's nothing small about it, though, because it operates at the true scale of life.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Sensitively written and acted, beautifully shot, and with a charming, sparingly used score, Minari is so engaging that it's easy to forget how radical it is.”
Nicholas Barber·BBC
“One of the great triumphs of Minari is its presentation of authentic childhood. These kids are not saints or stand-ins or mouthpieces. They are their own persons.”
Lindsey Bahr·Associated Press
“The autobiographical story of a Korean American family trying to sustain a farm in rural Arkansas has deservedly become the festival's most universally loved film.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorLee Isaac Chung
StarringSteven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton, Alan Kim
ComposerEmile Mosseri
Minari
Academy Award × 1
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.
What critics thought
Minari earned near-universal admiration on release, with critics singling out its specificity — the texture of 1980s rural Arkansas, the unsentimentalized childhood performances, the quietly radical choice to center a Korean American family's story without softening it for outside audiences. The aggregate enthusiasm is unusually cohesive: the rare case where festival buzz translated into sustained critical conviction rather than backlash.
“Minari is modest, specific and thrifty, like the lives it surveys. There's nothing small about it, though, because it operates at the true scale of life.”
A. O. Scott·The New York Times
“Sensitively written and acted, beautifully shot, and with a charming, sparingly used score, Minari is so engaging that it's easy to forget how radical it is.”
Nicholas Barber·BBC
“One of the great triumphs of Minari is its presentation of authentic childhood. These kids are not saints or stand-ins or mouthpieces. They are their own persons.”
Lindsey Bahr·Associated Press
“The autobiographical story of a Korean American family trying to sustain a farm in rural Arkansas has deservedly become the festival's most universally loved film.”
Benjamin Lee·The Guardian
Genres
Drama
Cast & Crew
DirectorLee Isaac Chung
StarringSteven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Youn Yuh-jung, Will Patton, Alan Kim
ComposerEmile Mosseri
Rent/Purchase