David Bridges
The trailer for coming-of-age dramedy Dìdi (弟弟) has arrived, and it really is gone straight for the nostalgic hearts of millennials.
Set in 2008, Dìdi follows Chris (Izaac Wang), a 13-yr-old Taiwanese American boy rising up in San Francisco. The film gives a snapshot of life as a young teen as the planet was turning out to be digitised, though it especially focuses on the functioning practical experience of 1st-technologies little ones — which contain Chris’ connection with his household and his mum’s (Joan Chen) anticipations.
Appropriately scored by MGMT’s 2007 bop “Youngsters,” Dìdi‘s trailer will not only count on the media of the time to evoke its setting. Alternatively it relishes in the exclusive adolescent encounters of the time, from filming skateboarding motion pictures with a camcorder, to pulling destructive Jackass-motivated stunts, to looking up uncomfortable instructional video clips about how to kiss on early YouTube. Then, of system, there have been getting the clumsy in-certain particular person talks about romance with your crush late at evening.
Ready and directed by Academy Award nominee Sean Wang and featuring a cast of predominantly 1st-time actors, Dìdi won the 2024 Sundance Film Festival’s U.S. Outstanding Viewers Award and the U.S. Spectacular Unique Jury Award for Quite very best Ensemble Forged.
Dìdi arrives in theatres July 26.
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