Director of Minari Lee Isaac Chung at Eccles Theater
Minari (Chung, 2020) depicts a Korean-American family pursuing the American Dream, which is a statement which already defeats my purpose of describing this film because "pursuing the American Dream" is a trope and this is a film that seems to defy tired tropes. It is immune to cliche. Instead, by showing the way family relationships might be contingent as much on circumstance as any desire for unity, and trials are a facet of work and life without adding cataclysm, the film beautifully reveals what is under the surface of a first-generation immigrant experience.
Luxor director Zeina Durra and crew.
Luxor (Durra, 2020) is a film about perspective and space. It follows Hana (Andrea Riseborough), a doctor on leave who is at once dealing with wartime trauma in the present while rekindling a past relationship. The simplicity of the film is achieved via complex technique and restraint. As Hana wanders through ancient corridors and views the painting of stars on the ceilings of old tombs, the at-times imperceptible realization that the present is slipping away is clear.
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