The After Yang Trailer Shows Exactly Why Critics Are Raving About It

Critics have been buzzing about After Yang, the second movie by the acclaimed and mysterious director Kogonada, ever because it premiered on the Cannes Film Festival final summer time. That buzz restarted per week and a half in the past, when the film debuted at Sundance. Thankfully, since we commonfolk will be capable to watch the sci-fi film subsequent month, we’ve simply obtained the primary trailer and the thrill appears to be like fully warranted.

All you actually need to know to get pleasure from this improbable video is the official synopsis: “In a world where robotic children are purchased as live-in babysitters, a father and daughter attempt to save the life of their robotic family member, Yang, who has become unresponsive.”

Obviously, issues are considerably extra advanced than that. A24 describes it thusly: “When his young daughter’s beloved companion—an android named Yang—malfunctions, Jake (Colin Farrell) 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 (Jodie Turner-Smith) and daughter across a distance he didn’t know was there.”

You can learn our full overview of After Yang right here, courtesy of Germain Lussier (however be warned of some gentle spoilers)—however what actually stands proud listed here are the vibes. It’s quiet with out being somber, mysterious with out being sinister, poignant with out being manipulative. It’s heat and considerate and melancholy and exquisite. (Honestly, perhaps it is because I simply watched the mercilessly bombastic Moonfall, however the After Yang trailer hit me exhausting.)

If you acknowledge the actor who lays Yang, Justin H. Min, however can’t place him, that’s probably as a result of he stars as Ben Hargreeves in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy, however not often exhibits up as a result of he’s, nicely, useless—though his established order may need been considerably altered for season three. That’s Colin Farrell, in fact, as the daddy Jake, Nightfliers’ Jodie-Turner-Smith as his spouse Kyra, and Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja as their daughter, Mika.

Based on the quick story “Saying Goodbye to Yang,” by Alexander Weinstein, After Yang premieres March 4 in theaters and on Showtime.

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