A Brand New Life

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Audience Member A masterpiece, everything about it is great, acting, direction, plot, yes, it's sad, so is life, but there is always hope! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member A little girl is placed in an orphanage by her father. She never believes that she is there to stay - he will come back for her. Heartbreaking and well told story. Not a flat film, even if there are few entertaining features here. Brilliant acting job from the young girl and a neat, bleak look camerawise. Pretty good, but nothing really special. 7 out of 10 dolls. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Audience Member Outstanding drama, with rather amazing acting - Kim Sae-Ron was the youngest actress invited to Cannes for an award. Ko Ah-Sung was known from The Host, also does a fine job. The story is anchored by memory cues, and amazingly these are strung together to build characters that are surprisingly well developed because those "cues", just like memories we all have, really are a summation of how we felt about them. Details like the missing shoe, as she attempted to climb over the barrier -- you know that is true as the missing shoe would cue your recollection of the event. The older girl she anchored to the word "beloved" with the game and longing for love of either a family or husband. Also how the movie shows how a child remembers, not so much her fathers face, but the comfort and safety of his presence. The song at the beginning is -- as one might surmise -- a cue to lots of tears towards the end. You can see Kim Sae Ron in another outstanding movie in 2014's -- A Girl at my Door. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/22/23 Full Review Audience Member Very well done... and powerful performance from Kim Sae-ron... highly recommended. Rated 4.5/5 Stars •  Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 02/09/23 Full Review Audience Member A brand new life, with simple plot, unfolding social issue to adapt with new surroundings, perfectly depict how 7-year-old little girl responds the situation, and it came so naturally by Kim Sae-ron, see how she strugges with unstable "kid" emotion. Libre ! Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/17/23 Full Review Audience Member A Brand New Life will age in the form of a flower that resists weathering with the fervor of the new life that never stops looking for something... That flower is obviously the small Kim Sae-Ron who works with the complexity of human nature through the eyes of youth until rumbling our foundations of emotion and belief. This beautiful film make us witnesses of the marriage between sadness and joy, injustice and hope, which is life. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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