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Didi review: Teenage angst is tenderly observed in this brilliant drama, writes BRIAN VINER
The pick of this week's releases is Didi, a funny, poignant, piercingly well-observed coming-of-age drama which will appeal not just to older teenagers but to many grown-ups
Better still, he keeps it to a whisker over an hour and a half, which isn't so great in the filling-an-afternoon context of school summer holidays, but amounts to the kind of concise and compelling storytelling that some film-makers much more experienced than Wang no longer appear to consider valid, more's the pity. The ending always elicited a satisfied sleepy sigh from our children, so 20 years on I hardly dare break it to them that the movie makes Harold (Zachary Levi) a goofy grown man, who befriends a boy called Mel (Benjamin Bottani) as he runs amok with his crayon in the real world. Our hero is a boy called Michael (voiced by Aaron MacGregor) who is swept overboard during a round-the-world sailing trip with his parents (Sally Hawkins and Cillian Murphy) and, with the family dog Stella, washes up on a remote Pacific island, where an elderly Japanese war veteran (Ken Watanabe) watches over him.
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