Nine Days (2020)

This weird movie, starting to get festival nominations and wins, is about a reclusive man who interviews human souls for a chance to be born. Kind of like a charmless Soul, it is one of the rare ones that left us cold.

Winston Duke is the decider, Zazie Beetz the main soul, Benedict Wong is the decider's sidekick (de-side-kick?), and the director/writer is Edson Oda.

The soundtrack, not available for streaming, is by Antonio Pinto, and, without hearing it again after two weeks, I can't remember it.

Beetz was last blogged for Joker, Wong for The Personal History of David Copperfield, and Pinto for McFarland, USA. Duke played M'Baku in Black Panther, though I didn't write about him, and Oda has directed nine shorts, eight of which he wrote. This is his feature debut.

As a voting member of the Independent Feature Project, I'm getting ten emails a day with suggestions "For Your Consideration" and/or links to stream movies that aren't yet available to the public. This was one of them that looked intriguing, especially since I like Beetz. I even watched the interview afterwards (her name is pronounced ZAH-see). But it didn't change Jack's or my mind.

That said, Rotten Tomatoes' critics' average is 86%, calling it "ethereal and evocative." To each his/her own.