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    ‘Preparation for the Subsequent Life’ Overview: Why Is Amazon Burying This Fred Hechinger Drama from Oscar Nominee Bing Liu?

    David GroveBy David GroveSeptember 5, 20255 Mins Read
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    ‘Preparation for the Subsequent Life’ Overview: Why Is Amazon Burying This Fred Hechinger Drama from Oscar Nominee Bing Liu?
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    Bing Liu, the author/director born in China till his household moved him to america when he was 5, has a Finest Documentary Oscar nomination for his 2018 function “Minding the Hole,” about male skate boarders in Rockford, Illinois.

    His narrative function debut, “Preparation for the Subsequent Life,” is produced by Orion Footage and Plan B, from Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, and Dede Gardner — all following an analogous path as Oscar-nominated docmaker RaMell Ross’ personal narrative function debut “Nickel Boys,” additionally produced by Orion and Plan B, and additionally arrange at Amazon/MGM Studios, and additionally a literary adaptation of an acclaimed novel. So why the hell is the studio burying Liu’s movie with a September 5 launch date in the course of fall pageant season, and with out sending it to any festivals?

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    The bittersweet immigrant love story at its core — starring cutie-pie it-boy Fred Hechinger (“The White Lotus,” “Thelma,” “Gladiator II”) as a military veteran and wildly promising discovery Sebiye Behtiyar as an undocumented Sebiye Uyghur girl, arriving in New York Metropolis amid nice peril and ache — is as seemingly doomed because the film’s launch technique. Director Liu greater than uncannily follows in Ross’ footsteps, which led to a Finest Image and Tailored Screenplay nominations for “Nickel Boys”: Liu additionally labored as a digicam assistant on fiction collection and movies exterior his nonfiction efforts, bringing to “Preparation for the Subsequent Life,” primarily based on Atticus Lish’s 2014 novel, a classy visible sense.

    That’s even when the film is uneven dramatically, weighed down by traumas and break-ups and breakdowns within the later stretches, and with too many photographs of Aishe (Uyghur) jogging towards her future. These scenes, lengthy monitoring photographs held by cinematographer Ante Cheng’s digicam, don’t inform us something about Aishe aside from how her soldier father, again within the Chinese language province of Xinjiang she escaped the place the Uyghur ethnic minority is persecuted, instilled in her a dedication to train and bodily energy that turns into a part of her preparations for the following life. In the event that they inform us something, it’s to literalize how she’s working from her previous.

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    However the movie’s sometimes clumsy symbolism and sputtered drama aren’t a motive to jot down off the movie. Quite the opposite, “Preparation for the Subsequent Life” is a promising narrative debut that additionally harnesses Liu’s established bona fides as a documentary director. His observant method to capturing the sights and sounds of New York’s Chinatown and Decrease East Aspect — the streets filled with extras, the kitchens the place Aishe works steaming and bustling — shows what can solely be a documentarian’s consideration to native element and coloration.

    Skinner is again in america, and in New York Metropolis with nothing however a backpack and baggie of anti-anxiety meds, after one more tour of responsibility within the Center East, and clearly coping with undiagnosed PTSD and self-medicating with alcohol. In the meantime, although Aishe speaks Mandarin and English (the latter a slight replace from Lish’s novel, through which her English vocabulary is proscribed), she is handled even by the owner working the Decrease East Aspect hovel she’s renting week after week as an outsider as a result of she is Muslim. We get flashes of her perilous journey as a refugee from China to america, extra so than is obtainable of Skinner’s previous, which he prefers to not reveal both. He spends a lot of his time on benders.

    Martyna Majok’s script wouldn’t work on the display screen with out the chemistry between Behtiyar (an actress clever for her years and lack {of professional} expertise) and Hechinger, who fall quick in love throughout New York Metropolis after a really only-in-the-movies encounter, in Instances Sq. motels and in a McDonald’s or within the threadbare condominium Skinner rents, however are finally too broken and from too disparate of cultural backgrounds to make it work. A late-breaking confrontation between the actors amid Skinner’s escalating alcohol dependency is capably performed by Behtiyar and Hechinger, in a movie that has beforehand averted overdramatics or sentimentality. A piano-driven rating from “The Final Black Man in San Francisco” composer Emile Mosseri rings in your head lengthy after the film is over, a factor of true magnificence. The cinematography can also be up there with the 12 months’s greatest.

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    In a span of complete accomplished movies evaporating off studios’ rosters quicker than a Titanic-bound submersible, does Amazon/MGM Studios wish to be generally known as a company that treats artists equally? “Preparation for the Subsequent Life” begins a quiet launch this weekend, and it doesn’t really feel just like the studio is supporting it. There’s an viewers for this movie, for individuals who like their romances unsentimental and spare, politically aware with out overheaping the messaging. It’s a flawed however affecting movie price greater than being handled as the whole lot however a literal write-off.

    Grade: B-

    Amazon/MGM Studios releases “Preparation for the Subsequent Life” in theaters Friday, September 5.

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