Fishguard Film Society

Minari (12A) 115m,
Lee Isaac Chung, USA, 2020
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Nominated for Best Film Oscar and Winner of Oscar for Best Supporting Actress in 2021,  Minari is an absorbing and moving family drama based on Lee Isaac Chang’s childhood in 80s rural America.  Jacob and Monica are tired of working in reliable but soul destroying jobs in Californian chicken hatcheries, and decide to move to rural Arkansas to farm. Here they hope for the by making a living growing Korean vegetables for the Korean American market, trying to change their lives to live the American Dream. ‘An intimate and heart-wrenching portrait of family and assimilation in Reagan era America.’ Rotten Tomatoes.