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Starring:
Aaron Chang, Chang Li Hua, Chiron Cillia Denk, Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Mahaela Park, Montay Boseman, Raul Dial, Shirley Chen, Sunil Mukherjee Maurillo
Summary:
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.
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Aug 1, 2024
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Aug 15, 2024
Dìdi exudes a special kind of empathy and warmth toward the kids who grew up in the age of Myspace, as well as their families. Many coming-of-age stories examine a child’s relationship with themselves and their parents, but Dìdi also tracks how those shifts were made more jarring and strange in the early days of social media.
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Jul 24, 2024
Aug 1, 2024
The trick is in the details — in letting the personal bring specificity to the universal while letting the universal illuminate the personal. It’s a balancing act, and writer/director/former teen disaster Sean Wang gets it mostly right in “Dìdi,” his fictionalized memory play of being a floundering Taiwanese American skate kid in 2008 Fremont, Calif.
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IndieWire
Jan 26, 2024
Screen Rant
Aug 22, 2024
There’s no denying this is a film capable of winning audiences of all types with its inherent charm, humor, and nostalgia. For me, however, this was 91 minutes of unfocused, chaotic energy that I did not enjoy. Tonally, the movie is all over the place, while its themes are explored with timid execution.
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