A kind of existential sci-fi detective story about love, death, and memory, After Yang is a beautiful and heartbreaking film that promises great things to come from its secretive but immensely talented director.
In the film, which is being offered in theaters and on Showtime, a close but fragile family of four seems afflicted by undiscussed sorrows. The youngest member is a little girl named Mika (Malea Emma Tjandrawidjaja) who is thrown into anguish when her beloved big brother, Yang (Justin H. Min), simply switches off. It turns out that Yang is an android, albeit an exceptionally advanced one. The girl’s father, a woebegone tea merchant named Jake (Colin Farrell), sets off on a repair-shop odyssey to try to bring the bot back to life, while his relationship with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) threatens to come apart.
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