In Between Days 

I was interested in seeing another Korean movie, and decided to watch In Between Days. As it turns out it is a movie about a Korean immigrant to some North American city, probably Toronto.  I found In Between Days to be an intriguing drama that held my interest.

We follow the unhappy Aimee who is a Korean immigrant student who spends her days loafing with her only friend and fellow Korean immigrant Tran.  Aimee is too immature and shy to express her love for Tran. Aimee's mother is overworked and distant, making life terrible for her. However, the biggest destress in her life is that she misses her father who had left the family and is presumably back in Korea.

Much of the core of In Between Days shows how out of place Aimee is in her Canadian culture; thus, she spends her time drawing in her notebook during her English class at school until she finally gets too bored and quits. Most of the film is shot in Korean, and it isn't until about two-thirds of the way through that Aimee demonstrates that she can actually speak English. The lack of action in the film is punctuated by static shots of the Toronto skyline. Throughout the movie we see Aimee voicing the feelings she represses in imaginary conversations with her departed father. Though Tran probably feels the same way for Aimee as she does about him, she waits too long to tell him - and by then he's drifted towards a coller Asian-Canadian girl. 

I recommend In Between Days if you are not looking for action and a neat ending.