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Sundance Review: Christopher Makoto Yogi’s ‘I Was A Simple Man’

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The rigorously restrained, contemplative nature that struck viewers of Christopher Makoto Yogi’s first feature, August at Akiko’s, in 2018, remains the distinctive trait of his new film I Was a Simple Man.

At its core an account of an aging man as he willingly takes the dive from being into nothingness, 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.The film premiered Friday in the Sundance Film Festival’s U.S.

Dramatic Competition lineup.Yogi’s cinema is built on blocks of strong, mostly static compositions and a mood in which the serene beauty of the Hawaiian setting is encroached upon by restless winds, insistent music,

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