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Saturday December 27th 2025
“The Truth Beneath” From the 36th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival
“The Truth Beneath”
(2016)
*****
A scandal may be on the way during an extremely close race that Eui-sung Kim (Noh Jae-soon) wins narrowly over Jong-chan (Ju- hyuk Kim).
Just as the elections will go national, Noh Jae- soon and his wife”'s daughter Kim Min-jin (Ji-Hoon Shin) goes missing. Noh Jae-soon tells Yeon-hong (Yeon-jin Son) to wait a day which Yeon-jin Son is appalled by his suggestion. She goes on her own search for her daughter when she runs into lies, secrets and conspiracy theories.
Country: South Korea. Running time: 102 minutes. Languages: Korean with English subtitles.Director: Kyoung mi- Lee. Cast. Ye-jin Son (Yeon-hong), Ju-hyuk Kim (Jong-chan), Eui-sung Kim (Noh-Jae-soon).
“Everything Else”
(2016)
*** out of 5 stars
Dona Flor (Adriana Barraza) has worked at a government office for 35 years. Dona”'s just doing her job in a perfunctory way finding little enthusiasm on or off the job. She shows weariness in her face day in and day out. Why? Well, in large part, because her daughter has drowned, but there”'s no indication whether her daughter”'s death was a month ago or twenty years ago.
Dona is a very lonely person: no friends or boyfriend to lean on.… Read the rest ““The Truth Beneath” From the 36th Annual Minneapolis-St. Paul Film Festival”
Birthing the Seed
Largest Black Bean ever? Sacred to some Native American Tribes & regarded as “poor man”'s meat” beans are rich in protein, supplying 1/3 of the essential amino acids to the corn, bean and squash trinity.
By Peter Molenaar
Two seasons ago, amidst the typically mottled ones, the harvest of Scarlet Runner Beans revealed two completely black seeds. In their turn, these seeds would germinate and prove to be a new mutant strain. Will the largest black bean ever grown bear my name?
However, in this New World, horticultural advance must largely be credited to the practice of Native American women. This is true, because the processors of the food were also the seed savers. Her gift to us was not merely that of the various beans, but also the tomatoes, peppers, squashes, melons, potatoes, pumpkins”¦and she gave us corn!
We should pity the school child who has not been introduced to teosinte, the grass from which, by her hand, corn was born. In the course of thousands of years, the once separate seed strands fused to become the precursor to the cob. Then, some 2,500 years ago, the modern cob emerged from Mexico. Cast north by the awesome birch bark canoe, the seeds stabilized families and cities grew.… Read the rest “Birthing the Seed”
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