Green Acres Is The Place To Be - - Minari (2020,USA, Color, 115 min) - - 15 March 2021

Strongly recommended. It’s hard to imagine someone not liking Lee Isaac Chung’s (Munyurangabo) new film Minari. This is not a remarkable movie except for it’s simple, uncomplicated good heartedness and six Oscar^©-nominations. Steven Yuen (The Walking Dead), after years bashing zombies, gets to speak in his native Korean, settle down on a farm in Missouri and get a Best Actor nod. His family includes an urban-loving wife, a son with a heart defect, and a foul-mouthed mother-in-law, also Oscar^©-nodded Youn Yuh-jung, The Bacchus Lady). Yet, Minari is neither an ethnic sitcom nor a screed on Southern xenophobia. Yuen’s Jacob and wife, Monica (Yeri Han, Sea Fog), have their foibles and arguments. But they make good, despite hardship. Will Patton (Wendy and Lucy) plays a delightfully loony, tongue-talking hired hand. Minari is also nominated for Lee Isaac Chung’s script, direction and score (Emile Mosseri, The Last Black Man In San Francisco)