Synopsis
When his young daughter's beloved companion — an android named Yang — malfunctions, Jake 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 and daughter across a distance he didn't know was there.
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Cast
- Justin H. MinYang
- Malea Emma TjandrawidjajaMika
- Colin FarrellJake
- Jodie Turner-SmithKyra
- Haley Lu RichardsonAda
- Sarita ChoudhuryCleo
- Ritchie CosterRuss
- Clifton Collins Jr.George
- Orlagh CassidyLillian
- Ava DeMaryVicky
Recommendations
- 100
The Playlist
Poignant and poetic, After Yang is a soulful and heartbreaking meditation on impermanence full of poignant wonder and riches of human grace. - 91
IndieWire
Through its hushed portrait of loss and reclamation, After Yang whispers a powerful fable about an all too present tomorrow in which people are more intimate with technology than they are with their own family. Few movies have ever felt so knowing or non-judgmental towards the love that we divert onto material things, and even fewer have so earnestly speculated that those things might be able to love us back. - 90
The Hollywood Reporter
This is a film of transporting grace and compassion, cerebral but never cold. It’s no small compliment to say that After Yang seems almost like an American sci-fi movie that Ozu or Kore-eda might have made. - 90
Variety
The movie’s pulse seldom rises above resting, but the director invites audiences to dive as deep as they want to go into the film’s themes, to read subtext into body language, silence and the space between characters. - 90
Los Angeles Times
This wry and wistful futuristic tale has a sharp eye for expressive visual spaces and manages to be both effortlessly cerebral and deeply emotional. - 80
Screen Daily
A beautifully executed, intellectually searching and sometimes droll futuristic drama. - 80
CineVue
After Yang is a moving, subtle and grounded piece of science fiction that doesn’t necessarily get to the core, but certainly hits the heart. - 80
The Telegraph
It’s a real tea-drinker’s piece, wanting you to sit down and let its hushed insights, like some earthy infusion, linger on the palate. The incentive is strong to see it again – not immediately, perhaps, but just when it’s just starting to fade on you. The second time, the flavours here can only deepen and unfurl.
