Film Screening: “Dìdi” (Sean Wang, 2024)
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Sean Wang, 2024, 91 min, USA, English and Mandarin with English subtitles,
Introduction by Professor Cynthia Dong (English department).
Synopsis
In 2008, during the last month of summer before high school begins, an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese American boy learns what his family can’t teach him: how to skate, how to flirt, and how to love your mom.
Critics’ notes:
“A wonderfully uncomfortable, deeply hilarious coming-of-age movie ... Didi plays like an extended and surprisingly welcome visit to the filmmaker’s childhood bedroom.” – Globe and Mail
“[A] universal study of being a teenage boy, trying to find something like a sense of identity and working out which lies you can and can’t tell yourself.” – Austin Chronicle