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Bora pierces that loneliness with the slow grace of sunlight melting through a treeline, and despite some occasional dithering her movie sinks into your skin like few other examples of its kind. Like any teenager, of any time, Eun-hee just wants to be at peace with who she is in a world that seemingly refuses to let her.
Heady as that may sound, Bora’s long and delicate film is tapped into its heroine’s sense of becoming in such a way that it feels more diaristic than historical, even when the final act hinges on a real tragedy that affected Seoul in October 1994. A tightly coiled 14-year-old girl named Eun-hee (Park Ji-hoo) looks for solid ground while her anxious middle class family strives for a higher foothold, as their nation embraces a democratic future and the social mobility that it promises. Kim Bora’s semi-autobiographical (or at least age-aligned) debut is set in Seoul circa 1994.
Specifically, the wagon-wheel effect, where something spins forward so fast that it appears to be moving in reverse. A warm still life about a teenager’s struggle to find herself in a country that’s racing to do the same, Kim Bora’s “ House of Hummingbird” so patiently contrasts its contemplative coming-of-age story against the backdrop of South Korea’s hyper-modernization that even its stillest and most tender scenes can feel like an optical illusion.
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