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Review of by David Ehrlich for IndieWire — 09 Dec 2021

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Layering the spectral hush of “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives” over the elegiac domesticity of a late Ozu film like “An Autumn Afternoon,” the Honolulu-born filmmaker’s singularly Hawaiian second feature is haunted and haunting in equal measure — a reckoning pitched at the volume of a whisper.

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This review of I Was a Simple Man (2021) was written by and published by IndieWire on 09 Dec 2021.

I Was a Simple Man has generally received positive reviews.

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