This sounds like an interesting movie, though there doesn't seem to be much in the way of a plot: a coming-of-age story about a recently immigrated Korean girl who has a crush on a boy, who in turn is drawn to the more Americanized Korean-American girls. The New York Times has a positive review of this "small, serious, unpretentious" movie, saying the stylistic restraint saves this otherwise mundane story.

The review also has a short video clip, which I thought highlights the type of screenwriting one can expect from this movie. In the clip, some girls mistake the lead character's name, Aimie, as Annie. When Aimie replies curtly, "I'm not Annie," that word sounds a lot like "any" - as if to say, "I'm not just anybody, I'm Aimie."

Directed by So Yong Kim and featured in the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, the movie was released earlier this week in Manhattan. Will it come to Korea? I doubt it. Even similar Korean movies bomb at the box office. But it would be interesting to see in conjunction with Never Forever, another recent, cross-cultural movie.