A Rainy Day

2023 · 1m

Directed by Yenni Myung

Genres: coming-of-age, drama

Tones: contemplative, tender

Two girls meet unexpectedly on a rainy day.

Picked by Zoe

The scouts

The premise reads like a Hallmark setup, but Myung seems aware of that trap—I'd need to see if there's actual subversion buried in the rain metaphor or if it's just twee restraint masquerading as depth.

Felix

A one-minute coming-of-age moment suggests formal discipline, and Myung's work sits comfortably in the lineage of intimate realist shorts; the constraint itself becomes a curatorial statement about what a meeting can hold.

Margot

In sixty seconds, Myung makes a single choice—probably in how the two girls' gazes meet, or the exact rhythm of the cut before the rain falls—that decides whether this is sentimental or genuinely still; that decision is everything.

Zoe