Movies

As I’ve expressed on this blog before, I’m a huge fan of Iranian cinema. I saw quite a few movies in 2025, and Iranian filmmakers gave the world two of the best — Jafar Pahani’s anti-revenge masterpiece “It Was Just an Accident” and the Oscar nominated documentary “Cutting

NJ is called away from A-Di by a page to A-Di. We find out that his office has been trying to reach him and somehow had A-Di’s pager number. So what’s the emergency? This is a little confusing, but it appears that their company has come across a

We’re still on A-Di in this section. It surprises me a bit, taking the movie scene by scene, just how much of the middle portion of the film concerns him — this is three of the last four segments. It starts with another in-car conversation. NJ is giving A-Di a

The movie is roughly halfway through at this point, so it’s a good time to take a step back and look at the film’s structure. “Yi Yi” begins with a wedding and ends with a funeral. Here at the halfway point, we get a baby shower. Compared to

Edward Yang shows off his gift for scene-to-scene transitions in this segment of the film, which also happens to be about major life transitions for three of the main characters in the film. We begin with Yang-Yang finally putting his water balloon plan into place. We see him walking quickly

Min-Min’s brother A-Di seems like the comic relief in “Yi Yi,” a character who doesn’t fully belong in the family, and arguably doesn’t fully belong in the film as well. I don’t mean that as a criticism, he’s more like a dried red pepper floating