RICEBOY SLEEPS-FR

Event date(s): September 09, 2024
Time(s): 07:30 PM - 09:30 PM
Category: Fredericton
Location: Fredericton

The Monday Night Film Series returns Sept. 9 with RICEBOY SLEEPS screening at 7:30 p.m. in Tilley 102, UNB.

There’s a drifting, dreamed quality to Anthony Shim’s movie, which has been quietly collecting plaudits since its premiere in Toronto. Set in the 90s, a Korean single mother raises her young son in the suburbs of Canada determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind.

The mood is established right from the storybook beginning, when, over hazy sea- and mountain-scapes, a Korean voiceover tells of an orphan, abandoned as a baby at a temple, who grew into a strong young woman. Christopher Lew’s exemplary photography, and Andrew Yong Hoon Lee’s minimal but gradually swelling score, express the emotions that mother and son hold so deliberately in check.

The beats of the immigrant drama — the new friendships and small triumphs of assimilation, as well as the humiliations and miscommunication of cultural otherness — are all here. “Riceboy Sleeps” is sedate and respectful. But in its soulful, expertly crafted simplicity it does ring with the sincerest and most moving of sentiments that a grown-up child could express to a beloved parent: I remember it all, and thank you. 

“Riceboy Sleeps is imbued with strains of compassion, grace, and gentleness. A genre powered by poignancy.”  Namrata Joshi, The New Indian Express

BONUS: Actor Ethan Hwang will be present for the screening and will hold a Q&A after the show with Jamaal Azeez from TIFF Film Circuit. 

This term, 14 limited release, independent foreign & Canadian films will be shown. Admission is $10/film, but a half-yearly $12 student film society membership reduces admission cost to $7/film. The series is open to all. Memberships are available at Tilley 102 every Monday night. 

For further info, contact NB Film Co-op 455-1632  info@nbfilmcoop.com or visit our website.

The NB Film Co-op in partnership with the UNB Faculty of Arts and the Toronto Film Festival presents the series.

Building: Tilley Hall

Room Number: Room 102