MINARI (Film Review): Life As an Immigrant…Not Really

Relying on their limited savings, two Korean immigrants and their American-born children move from California to a van in rural Arkansas. There, father Jacob (Steven Yeun) starts growing Korean fruits and vegetables, expecting to sell them to merchants. Mother Monica (Han Ye-ri) isn’t that fond of their rural transition — predicated on her origin as an urban Korean — and is concerned with their…