After Yang (2022)
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
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After Yang (2022)
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Released Year: 2022
Runtime: 96 minutes
Directors: Kogonada
Writers: Kogonada
Casts: Colin Farrell, Clifton Collins Jr., Ritchie Coster, Brett Dier, Lee Wong, Sarita Choudhury, Orlagh Cassidy, Haley Lu Richardson, Nana Mensah, Eve Lindley, Deborah Hedwall, Jodie Turner-Smith, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, Justin H. Min, Ava DeMary, Adeline Kerns, Ansley Kerns, An Li Bogan, Katie Honaker, Alberto Del Saz, Jesse Kovarsky, Marcella Lewis, Maria Majoli, Toni Melaas, Mina Nishimura, Lily Ockwell, JC Shuster, Megan Williams, Taylor Ortega, Jae Kim
IMDB: After Yang (2022)
Storyline
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake searches for a way to repair him. In the process, Jake discovers the life that has been passing in front of him, reconnecting with his wife and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
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The Playlist -
Poignant and poetic, After Yang is a soulful and heartbreaking meditation on impermanence full of poignant wonder and riches of human grace.
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IndieWire -
Through its hushed portrait of loss and reclamation, After Yang whispers a powerful fable about an all too present tomorrow in which people are more intimate with technology than they are with their own family. Few movies have ever felt so knowing or non-judgmental towards the love that we divert onto material things, and even fewer have so earnestly speculated that those things might be able to love us back.
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The Hollywood Reporter -
This is a film of transporting grace and compassion, cerebral but never cold. It’s no small compliment to say that After Yang seems almost like an American sci-fi movie that Ozu or Kore-eda might have made.
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Variety -
The movie’s pulse seldom rises above resting, but the director invites audiences to dive as deep as they want to go into the film’s themes, to read subtext into body language, silence and the space between characters.
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Los Angeles Times -
The experience of watching it produces readily identifiable flavors and associations: It’s a gentle-toned family drama and a moody futuristic fable, with a faint techno-paranoid aroma, a melancholy mouthfeel and a lingering aftertaste of existential unease.
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