In Minari, Soon-ja (Yuh-Jung Youn) moves in with her daughter's family in Arkansas, where her grandson complains that she's not like other grandmas. "They bake cookies!
They don't swear! They don't wear men's underwear!" David nags at Soon-ja, who in his view is coarse instead of cuddly, preferring to watch pro wrestling and chug Mountain Dew over softer, more stereotypical pursuits.
That same countercultural spirit could describe Youn herself, the Korean screen legend who was writer-director Lee Isaac Chung's only pick for the role of Soon-ja.
Making her American film debut exactly 50 years after her first movie (Kim Ki-young's 1971 psychosexual thriller Woman of Fire), the 73-year-old's dynamic and ultimately heartbreaking performance as.
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