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After Yang is a 2021 American science fiction drama film written, directed, and edited by Kogonada

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1. After Yang is a 2021 American science fiction drama film.
2. It was written, directed, and edited by Kogonada.
3. It stars Colin Farrell, Jodie Turner-Smith, Justin H. Min, Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja, and Haley Lu Richardson.
4. The film had its world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival on July 8, 2021.
5. It received universal acclaim from critics.
6. The film is scheduled to be released by A24 on March 4, 2022.
7. It will premiere both in theaters and on Showtime.
8. In June 2018, it was reported that producer Theresa Park had acquired screen rights to “Saying Goodbye to Yang”.
9. It was a short story written by Alexander Weinstein.
10. The film would be written and directed by Kogonada.
11. In February 2019, it was announced that Colin Farrell would star in After Yang, which would be distributed by A24.
12. In April 2019 the rest main actors joined the cast.
13. Turner-Smith repaced Farahani.
14. Principal photography began on May 1, 2019.
15. Its North American premiere on January 21, 2022 at the Sundance Film Festival.
16. It won the Alfred P. Sloan Prize
17. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 86% of 92 critics’ reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.8/10.
18. The website’s consensus reads, “Although its reach occasionally exceeds its grasp, After Yang yields rich rewards for those willing to settle into its low-key wavelength.
19. Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 84 out of 100 based on 18 critics, indicating “universal acclaim”.
20. There’s a passage from Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer” that has always stayed with filmmaker Koganada: “The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everyday-ness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
21. The filmmaker explains, “I found myself returning to this idea as I was writing and making After Yang, especially as it related to the father, who is struggling to feel connected to this world.”
22. Costumes by designer Arjun Bhasin were designed to indicate a shift away from synthetics, toward sustainability and renewable materials.
23. In fact, none of the clothes that were worn by actors had any plastic material.
24. There’s also an additional theme composed expressly for the film by Oscar-winning legend Ryuichi Sakamoto.
25. Colin Farrell calls Kogonada a “professor” because of his encyclopedic love of movies.
26. The song, “Gilda”, sung by young Mika to her father is actually from Riri Shushu no subete (2001).
27. Cinematographer Benjamin Loeb and Kogonada had a ritual to eat ramen together throughout the production while discussing life and their approach to After Yang and to cinema in general.
28. The first draft of the script was written in three months.
29. The home of the family was based on mid-century “California Modern” structures developed by Joseph Eichler. In fact, one of Eichler homes just outside of New York City in suburban Rockland County, the only three built on the East Coast, was used by production team by completely renovating the house in the process of prepping it for a tight 29-day shoot.
30. It’s Ava DeMary’s debut.