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.
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.
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.