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Riceboy Sleeps

2023 · 117 min

A quiet, tender ache of a film, steeped in memory and the unspoken distance between a mother and her son.

Overview: In the 1990s, an immigrant single mother raises her teenage son in the Canadian suburbs, determined to provide a better life for him than the one she left behind in South Korea.
How it feels: Melancholic, warm, earnest and tense. Slow-burning and needs your attention.
About: Family, identity, immigration, coming-of-age
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: melancholicstrength 3 of 3
warmstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
identity
immigration
coming-of-age
isolation
Places: suburbs
home
school
Era: period
Audience: adult
Form: None
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild