Minari harkens to the intricacies of Richard Linklater s coming-of-age tale
Boyhood with a bit of John Ford sentimentalism a la
How Green Was My Valley. Yet, in some ways, this one feels more guided by America s literary tradition than its cinema (there are evident echoes of Steinbeck and Morrison). What emerges is far from a repeat of the author s past
Minari is an astonishing work of art capable of standing on its own. In the 1980s, a Korean-American family led by Jacob (Steven Yeun) and Monica (Han Ye-ri) relocate to rural Arkansas to start a farm. Told from the perspective of 7-year-old David (based on Chung himself; Alan Kim),