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IWeirDo
Available: Aug. 28 - Sept. 12, All USA except California and Hawaii
Eerily timely in its focus on formalized paranoia as a lifestyle, the film follows the prudent footsteps of Po-Ching and Chen Ching, two young oddballs cursed with germaphobia and OCD, as they walk through life clad in personal protective equipment. Starting with a lively, empathetic account of their various quirks and neurotic rituals (the masks and gloves are sure to strike a chord), their friendship, forged over their shared dread of the outside world and its swarm of menacing, microscopic lifeforms, quickly morphs into a weird, impossibly charming romance. Until.. it takes stranger turns.
Liao Ming-yi’s maverick feature directorial debut, shot on iPhone XS, a feat that’s nearly undetectable even for the trained eye, is a telling tale of a society fragmented by its own technological advances. Part romcom, part dystopian nightmare, iWeirdo crafts a wholly captivating microcosm of our anxieties and aspirations.