A Brand New Life

Beautiful movie.
The director herself is an orphan from Korea. What really moved me about this movie is that the little girl who smiles so happily at the beginning of the movie as her father takes her out to the market for new shoes and dinner won't be smiling again for the rest of the movie because she knows that she's being abandoned and she's doing everything in her power to suppress her sadness, anger, fear and confusion from being abandoned by the very person who should love her the most.

I hope Amazon makes this movie more available. This movie deserves 5 stars for its quiet beauty that tells the story of a very brave, little girl who struggles and comes to terms with her life.......at a very early age. I doubt that many of us can handle such harsh reality as bravely and strongly as this little girl does in the movie. Simply amazing performance by Kim Sae-Ron. She displayed more composure, courage, strength and maturity than most "professional" actors I've seen in a very long...

Sad but beautiful
The child actors in this movie should get Oscars:-)

While the story is reminiscent of other tales of abandoned children and orphans, whether autobiographical or literary fiction, it's filmed in a more realistic style. There isn't a fairy tale ending, girls who are pretty and smart can hope to find adoptive parents, others have limited choices. But it's beautifully paced and filmed and doesn't use cheap tricks to try to evoke a response. Probably not most peple's idea of a date night flick but rewarding in its own way.

A wonderful, wonderful, but sad, movie.
One day recently, I was trolling through the tv channels, looking for something to watch.I came across this movie which was just seconds into its beginning.At that moment, I had no idea of what it was about or what it had in store for me.As I continued to watch this movie (thankfully, with English subtitles), I became deeply engrossed in what was unfolding before my eyes.
It soon became obvious to me that this movie was going to be one of the very best ever to be seen by my eyes.The abandonment of this beautiful little girl by her father, who lied to her, was soon to bring tears to these 73 year old eyes.The torment that she had to go through,forcibly having to live in an all girl orphanage, with many other young girls and the way she handles her situation, had me completly engrossed in this movie.When she was finally accepted for adoption by a French couple, it left me further wondering, just what her brand new life was going to bring her.A new family, a new mother, a new...

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