Product Details

• Actors: Jiseon Kim
• Directors: So Yong Kim
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
• Language: English, Korean
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: KINO VIDEO
• DVD Release Date: November 20, 2007
• Run Time: 82 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000VS6LY0
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #49,854 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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Studio: Kino International Release Date: 11/20/2007 Run time: 82 minutes

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A delicate and subtly textured story about culture clashes and adolescent crushes, December 3, 2007

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Nathan Andersen "film lover, philosophy profe... (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Between Days (DVD)

Aimie is a young Korean immigrant, living in Toronto with her grandmother. She has a crush on her best friend, Tran, but doesn't know how to tell him, especially when he begins to fall for someone else. He doesn't mind the idea of practicing intimacy with her in order to be more prepared when it comes to others with more experience, but she has enough pride to refuse that.

The lead performance is a brilliant piece of understated longing -- and you get the sense that the film could succeed even if it were completely silent and for the most part it is: without saying much, because she lacks confidence even in her own native tongue, Aimie conveys a longing that is as much about affection as it is about the need to have somebody to mask her own insecurity. Her gradual path towards autonomy and confidence is played with consummate and remarkable delicacy, but with an honesty that reveals each new development and discovery as clearly as if she had announced them.

The film is beautifully shot on Sony HD Cam, achieving a kind of muted vibrancy, with shades of pink and blue against white that capture both the coldness and alienation she feels in this new place as well as the vitality that still pulses in her skin. A very fine film, well worth watching for lovers of international and independent cinema who have the patience to let performances and nuance carry the story rather than explosions and melodrama. In Between Days was the 2006 Winner of the Special Jury Price for Independent Vision at the Sundance Film Festival (where I first saw and enjoyed this film) and was the 2006 Winner of FIPRESCI International Critics Prize at the Berlin Film Festival Forum.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Nice portrait of teenage life, December 17, 2007

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DJ Joe Sixpack (...in Middle America) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Between Days (DVD)

Although this is a film about an immigrant -- a Korean girl living in Montreal -- the real emotional core of the movie is about teenage life, and in particular, about moody teenage girls edging into maturity. The film is very slow and deliberate, even a bit morose, although it avoids the cliches of mean boyfriends or melodramatic drug- or pregnancy-related crises. It's a very mature, contemplative film, full of sad, aching moments, and lots and lots of naturalistic "hanging out." It's an art film, probably not for everyone, but very well crafted and rewarding for the right viewers. (Joe Sixpack, Slipcue film reviews)

4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Another poignant, heart-twisting creation from the Korean art house, December 17, 2007

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Nicolas Leobold "Writer and Businessman" (New York, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Between Days (DVD)

The highest compliment I can pay to In Between Days is to say that sitting through the film was soothing, blissful, and quiet beauty. Unlike most dialogue-rich films today, In Between Days uses the camerawork and photography to tell most of the story and communicate much of the feelings of the action--exactly how filmmaking is supposed to be. The film tells a simple story but touches the viewer profoundly. Anyone can identify with the confusions of young relationships, and sympathize with the harm and hurt of suffering a broken family. Jiseon Kim as Aimee is both a beautiful young girl full of unconscious nobility and grace yet also a lost youth longing for her absent father. This film marks a triumph for director So Yong Kim, who has made an artistic, aesthetic film on a par with masterworks like Antonioni's "The Passenger". Sitting through both films was similar in that the luxuriant and soothing photography and silence of the soundtrack proved that the directors had full artistic control over their craft and were not nervous about saying too little. In recent years it has been difficult to top the exquisite quality of Korean filmmaking, but So Yong Kim's "In Between Days" belongs in the upper tier of this genre.