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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 09 Dec 2021

Layering the spectral hush of “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” over the elegiac domesticity of a late Ozu film like “An…

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By David Rooney (943) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 09 Dec 2021

The edges are perhaps rougher and the narrative more structured, but the film carries echoes of the work of Asian contemplative cinema maestros…

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By Guy Lodge (731) for Variety (12,700) on 09 Dec 2021

All Yogi’s actors work in subtle, effective deference to his natural command of atmosphere and place: This is a film where Hawaiian rainfall…

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By Richard Brody (868) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 08 Dec 2021

Yogi unfolds the characters’ intimate stories and the region’s history in sharply textured details and rapturous images; he blends social…

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By Hoai-Tran Bui (110) for Slashfilm (971) on 08 Dec 2021

I Was a Simple Man is a slow-burning walk toward the light, a paean for life, and the land and people that shaped it…

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By Bradley Gibson (126) for Film Threat (5,156) on 08 Dec 2021

Yogi brings us close to Masao’s personal tragedy while at the same time pulling back to see life and death at a cosmic level…

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By Michael Rechtshaffen (1,086) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 02 Dec 2021

Taking a cue from its taciturn protagonist, I Was a Simple Man prefers to let its soulful poetic imagery do the bulk of the talking…

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By Roxana Hadadi (336) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Nov 2021

A 100-minute spell of beauty and melancholy, intimate and grand in equal measure, a film that derives its power from the universality of its…

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By Wes Greene (110) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 16 Nov 2021

The film’s quietly uncanny narrative wondrously depicts not only a dying man’s reflection on his life, but also the very nature of Hawaii itself…

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