Hot Docs Report: Dear Pyongyang REVIEW

Since my lambasting from a regular poster of comments in an earlier review of A State of Mind, in which apparently declared my undying allegiance to Kim Jong Il or something (hey, just because I can respect a showman doesn’t mean I’m a commie, McCarthy) I’ve always been of a mind to keep my eye open for documentaries which consider North Korea one of their topics. Therefore Dear Pyongyang was one of my first picks on the Hot Docs schedule.

This film, however, isn’t really about North Korea. Not to say this is a bad film (right away, anyway) Dear Pyongyang is the sometimes touching, often glacially slow, story of a woman’s relationship with her father.