I Was a Simple Man (2021)
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Critic Consensus: I Was a Simple Man tells a simple story whose deceptively straightforward approach yields richly melancholic rewards.
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Cast
as Masao Matsuyoshi
as Grace
as Adult Masao
as Gavin
as Kati
as Ashley
as Mark
as Young Masao
as Young Grace
as Young Kati
as Jimmie
as Akiko
as Doctor
as Lance
as Bar Guy
as Bar Patron
as Bar Patron
Critic Reviews for I Was a Simple Man
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A stirring, melancholic portrait of an ailing, elderly patriarch grappling with his encroaching mortality.
A 100-minute spell of beauty and melancholy, intimate and grand in equal measure.
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.
Yogi creates a cinema that is simultaneously meticulously physical and wildly metaphysical, offering passionate dramatic correlates and symbols for the unrepresentable-for the subjective experience of death.
The film is defined by its discipline and a style that might be called lushly austere. This is refined, specialist cinema that will be warmly embraced by aesthetes.
There's poetry here, but there are also long sections that feel hollow.
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