‘The Legend of Ochi’ Movie Review: Sweet, Simple, Stunning Dive in the Earth in the Earth

Helena Zengel in a scene of ‘The Legend of Ochi’

LegendIsaiah Saxon’s feature film debut, which he has also written is a simple story, stated with a breathtaking mixture of location-performance, puppet, animatronics, computer animation and matte painting. Fantasy film uses a eccentric palette to accept the acceptance of the film and tell its story of the family.

Yuri (Helena Zengel) is a lonely girl living in a farm in Carpethian mountain with her father Maxim (Wilm Dafo). Although Yuri recalled his mother, Dasha (Emily Watson), Maxim insisted that he left them, and it is not an advantage. Yuri is trying to find her. After the death of his parents, Petro (Finn Wolfhard) also lives with them. Yuri has always been asked to stay at home at night, away from Ochi, vicious animals of the forest made people and livestock equally useless.

Maxim trains boys from the village to become the clever hunter of Ochi. When Yuri finds a baby a child with her foot in a mesh, she decides to take her back to her people. The way, there are danger and discoveries, including a cutting infected. Maxim does not want to believe that Yuri left his own agreement, preferring to believe that he was taken by Ochi and mounts the rescue to his daughter.

Shot at place in Transylvania, Legend The aircraft wants to grab, take it to the Apuseni mountain, and count the stars by a glacier lake, Bile Lake in Central Romania. The cottage of Dasha, which looks eternal and esoteric, proves to be a refuge for Yuri and Ochi and also where she learns about her roots.

As Maxim puts on his ridiculous helmets and armor, anyone thinks of Don Quixot and bends against Pawanchkek. Daffo is a master in creating these damaged characters, with a changed sense of reality, while Watson is her capable self as a wise woman of the forest. Volfhard has nothing to stand quietly and absorbs everything with its big, deep eyes.

Wilm Daffo, Left, and Finn Wolfhard in a scene of ‘The Legend of Ochi’

Work of visual effects and puppets (seven artists worked on Baby Ochi) are outstanding. The sequence in the supermarket, from which the Yuri and the Ochi shopping are dramatically broken on the trolley, is a fun. The royal mountains, still lakes, alone sheep and solitary cars run on the narrow mountain roads, forgot the story of a land time. Saxon – who directed the music video for Icelandic singer Björk and American Rocker Grizzly Bear – uses music and silence effectively Legend of Ochi, This is a rare animal, a cool children’s film!

The Legend of Ochi is currently running in theaters