RICEBOY SLEEPS

CANADA | 2022 | COLOR | DCP | 117’ | ENGLISH, KOREAN

Some films encompass the world. They seem to know life, pose the right questions, remain silent, emit awe. They are inevitably rare. All of this is found here, in the story of a woman and her son who immigrate from South Korea to Canada when the father dies. Shim, with confidence based on the excellent screenplay, the strategically considered direction, and the editing which reflects wonderfully the heroes’ world as well as the geography of the film, is sometimes fast-flowing and sometimes pauses on the exaltation of a meditation. The leading performance dominates in the gentle manner only far-Easterners know, as well as the handling of the sensitive issue. A film that will stay with you. I.D.

DIRECTOR: Anthony Shim
SCREENWRITER: Anthony Shim
DoP: Christopher Lew
MUSIC: Andrew Yong Hoon Lee
EDITOR: Anthony Shim
PRINCIPAL CAST: Choi Seung-yoon, Ethan Hwang, Hunter Dillon

ANTHONY SHIM
Canadian filmmaker born in South Korea. He started off in front of the camera, and holds a particularly symbolic role in this one too. This is his second film, already awarded with the top award of the Toronto Film Critics Association, half a dozen audience awards and several other honors at many festivals.

 FILMOGRAPHY
2022 Riceboy Sleeps
2019 Daughter