Directed by Sean Wan, “Diddy” has been acquired by Focus Features and is scheduled for a long-awaited theatrical release later this year. There's no word on how much Focus had to spend to get this movie.
I saw about 20 movies at this year's Sundance Film Festival, and Diddy was definitely one of the few that I thought was above average. Hopefully, I'll write about another of her titles, Jesse Eisenberg's “A Real Pain,” in the next few days.
“Diddy” won the coveted Audience Award for Best U.S. Drama and the Special Jury Award for Best Ensemble. It's also an award-worthy film, one of his better films in competition this year, and I also give short praise to “Between the Temples” and “Good One.”
Set in 2008 during the last month of summer before high school starts, “Diddy” follows an impressionable 13-year-old Taiwanese-American boy as he learns the things his family won't teach him: how to skate, how to have an affair. , and how a young boy overcomes the most turbulent period in his life.
This is a sweet, real, and incredibly touching film. Remember Bo Burnham's “Eighth Grade”? If you liked it, you will be charmed by “Didi”. It's not a game changer by any means, but it's the kind of discovery that makes Sundance such an important festival.
More Sundance news. He was one of 160 “critics” who participated in the festival's annual poll by IndieWire.here it is result, gives you a good overview of this year's festival. I watched seven of the top 10 movies (unfortunately, I missed “I Saw the TV Glow,” “Love Lies Bleeding,” and “A Different Man”).
1. “Real pain”
2. “I saw the glow on TV.”
3. “Good One”
4. “Didi (younger brother)”
5. “Temple Room”
6. “Love Lies Bleeding”
7. “Thelma”
8. “Show forgiveness.”
9. “Another Man”
10. “Girls Will Be Girls”
