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We Are Little Zombies

Wî â Ritoru Zonbîzu

2019

Makoto Nagahisa

Keita Ninomiya, Satoshi Mizuno, Mondo Okumura, Sena Nakajima ...

5.7

82

Comedy One sunny day, four young strangers—Hikari, Ikuko, Ishi, and Takemura—meet by chance at a crematorium. They have all recently lost their parents, but none of them can shed a tear. They are like zombies, devoid of all emotion. Alone in the world at 13 years old with no future, no dreams, and no way to move forward, our protagonists dress themselves in scraps from a garbage dump, track down musical instruments, and decide to form a ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Monica Castillo rogerebert.com	"'We Are Little Zombies' is a visual funhouse, full of surrealistic images, lurid colors and lead by four cartoonishly very stoic leads"
		Jessica Kiang Variety	"Makoto Nagahisa’s explosively ingenious and energetic debut (...) holds the high score for visual and narrative invention"
		Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"Blissful, whacked-out, inspired, juvenile, dementedly inventive, hyper-energized... (...) The downside is that this proves exhausting"
		Emily Yoshida Vulture	"[It] is as rigorous in its exploration of grief as it is stylistically exuberant, and one of the most exciting premieres at Sundance this year."
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Fitfully-entertaining (...) While it’s an understatement to say this film is busy, the suspicion is that it’s busy saying not very much"
		J Hurtado Screen Anarchy	"A charming piece of pop-culture obsessed cinema that is sure to appeal to weirdoes like me who like their films a little left of center."
		David Ehrlich IndieWire	"Each scene is so unexpected — so outright impossible to expect — that one thing or another will come along and jolt you back to attention"
		Dan Mecca The Film Stage	"Aesthetically, there is a lot going on here (...) Any character development feels obstructed by Nagahisa’s overactive imagination"
		Jeannette Catsoulis The New York Times	"For a time, the sheer originality of the picture (...) and its gonzo execution are more than enough to delight (...) Smart, noisy and flashily assured"

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