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We Have Good News and Bad News About The Legend of Ochi
The good news is the controversy over the new A24 film’s supposedly AI-looking critter is baseless. The bad news? Well…
It turned out that the opposite was true: The effects were largely the result of painstakingly executed puppetry and animatronics, the settings often a combination of Romanian locations and matte paintings, all overseen by the obsessive Saxon, a music video director who’d spent years working on this, his first feature. Watching the film itself (which just premiered at Sundance, ahead of an April 25 theatrical release), we can sense the level of detail and sensitivity that has gone into imagining this largely handmade world and the strange furry creatures at its center. Yuri (Helena Zengel), a girl born to a father (Willem Dafoe) who wanted a boy, finds herself escaping with a cuddly baby Ochi, a fictional primate species her island community is at war with.
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