Sundance 2021 offered two case studies in the anxiety of influence, or lack thereof--neither film’s particularly worried about covering its tracks. Hawai'ian director Christopher Makoto Yogi's I Was a Simple Man is a logical progression from his first feature, 2018's August at Akiko's, which climaxed by layering a Mulholland Drive riff (a sax player soloing inside an empty cave with no audience) on top of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (said shot of cave models its angle and light...
Sundance 2021 Critic's Notebook 5 (Vadim Rizov): I Was a Simple Man, The Blazing World
Filmmaker Magazine - 3 Feb 2021 22:10
Sundance 2021 offered two case studies in the anxiety of influence, or lack thereof--neither film’s particularly worried about covering its tracks. Hawai'ian director Christopher Makoto Yogi's I Was a Simple Man is a logical progression from his first feature, 2018's August at Akiko's, which climaxed by layering a Mulholland Drive riff (a sax player soloing inside an empty cave with no audience) on top of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (said shot of cave models its angle and light...
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