Weekend Movie Forecast: The Soloist Vs. Tyson

So Yong Kim's semi-autobiographical Treeless Mountain tells the story of two little girls whose mother leaves them with their diffident aunt in order to seek out her missing husband. The Onion's Noel Murray says, "It’s hard to watch these sad, cute little faces without feeling a little torn up as their world falls apart. The amount of effort they put into meeting their everyday needs—something to eat, a warm place to sleep, a rudimentary acknowledgment of their own existence, etc.—renders every setback a tragedy and every small gesture of kindness a triumph. Kim’s aesthetic is arguably more effective here than it was on In Between Days; her choice to fill the screen with nearly everything she shoots has the effect of making plastic toys look like talismans and adult faces look almost mythical in their kindness or indifference."