Showing posts with label nine days. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nine days. Show all posts

Monday, February 1, 2021

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.