‘Nine Days’: Film Review Reviewed at Sundance Film Festival, Jan. 27, 2020. A reclusive man conducts a series of interviews with human souls for a chance to be born. Like the master director, Lee Isaac Chung is interested in family dynamics, opening as young David (Alan Kim), a charming seven-year-old, is transplanted from the West Coast to rural Arkansas. Five contenders emerge. In a house distant from the reality we know, a reclusive man named Will interviews prospective candidates—personifications of human … This is the premise of Nine Days, Edson Oda’s odd, affecting portrait of a prelife purgatory, and half of a serious one-two U.S. If “Nine Days” earned its comparison to Kore-eda, “Minari” earns the Sundance parallel with Yasujiro Ozu. Nine Days is a magnificently moving, original work of art. Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award: U.S. This is the one-of-a-kind masterpiece of the 2020 Sundance Film Festival. Dramatic What if being born is not the beginning but the goal? Will interviews candidates to be selected for the privilege of being born. As five candidates emerge, Will has to narrow down one of them in the course of the next nine days. Running time: 124 MIN. With Zazie Beetz, Bill Skarsgård, Winston Duke, Tony Hale. As five candidates emerge, Will has to narrow down one of them in the course of the next nine days. “What if being born is not the beginning but the goal? Nine Days is a tale of Will who lives in a house that is far from the reality we know.

Nine Days is a tale of Will who lives in a house that is far from the reality we know. In a house distant from the reality we know, a reclusive man named Will interviews prospective candidates—personifications of human souls—for the privilege he once had: to be born. This is the film I was waiting for. This is it. When I first read the summary of Nine Days on the Sundance Festival App, I was wildly intrigued.

Will interviews candidates to be selected for the privilege of being born. Directed by Edson Oda. This supernatural twist […]