Dìdi (Cinémathèque Unreleased)

Dìdi

USA 2024 | Sean Wang | vostFR | 93’ | digital | Cast : Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen > Audience Award U.S. Dramatic, U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award : Ensemble, Sundance Film Festival 2024

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.

En 2008, un mois avant le début du lycée, un jeune américain taïwanais de 13 ans, très impressionnable, apprend ce que sa famille ne peut pas lui enseigner : comment patiner, comment flirter et comment aimer sa mère.

« You can add Sean Wang’s Dìdi to the short list of films that fine-tune the personal into the universal, and turn a magic-mirror reflection of its creator into a shared wavelength. » (Rolling Stone)