Dìdi (弟弟)

2024 · 94 min · EN · R · 7.2 (249 votes)

Dir. Sean Wang · Starring Izaac Wang, Joan Chen, Shirley Chen, Chang Li Hua, Mahaela Park, Raul Dial · Music Giosuè Greco

“For anyone who's ever been a teenager.”

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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.

VIBE

This film feels like a sun-drenched, hazy memory of a pivotal summer. It's a tender, often awkward, and deeply authentic journey through the messy, beautiful landscape of adolescence, capturing the pangs of first crushes and the complexities of family with a warm, bittersweet glow. A truly lived-in experience.

nostalgicbittersweetauthenticawkwardwarmsteadyindie realismnaturalistic2000s aestheticslice-of-life dramacoming-of-agefamily dynamicsidentityfriendshipfirst love

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