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Through the eyes of a drifter who chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning...
Through the eyes of a drifter who chooses to live on the streets, Chinese filmmaker Nanfu Wang explores the meaning of personal freedom - and its limits.
"When Nanfu Wang first came to America, Florida seemed like an exotic frontier full of theme parks, prehistoric swamp creatures, and sunburned denizens. Now as she travels wide-eyed from one city to another, she encounters Dylan Olsen, a charismatic young drifter who left a comfortable home and loving family for a life of intentional homelessness. Fascinated by his choice and his rejection of society’s rules, Wang follows Olsen with her camera on a journey that spans across years, takes her across America, and explores the meaning of freedom — and its limits. But as Wang delves into Olsen’s world, she discovers something that calls her entire world view into question." (DocEdge Film Festival)
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95 %19 reviewsRotten Tomatoes® rating
84 %86 reviewsAudience score rating
"What begins as a celebration of reckless freedom, then turns into a revelation of a broken soul, becomes something deeper..."
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Variety
Variety""I Am Another You" poses tricky questions about the relationship between filmmaker and subject, and maybe between filmmaker and audience."
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The New York Times
The New York Times"Begins as fly-on-the-wall travelography but soon becomes something much more intimate and eye-opening."
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Screen Daily
Screen Daily"Sometimes freedom's just another romanticised word for a knot of tough realities - as documentarian Nanfu Wang discovers in her affecting new film."
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Hollywood Reporter
Hollywood ReporterI Am Another You | Details
Award winner- Special Jury Recognition for Excellence in Documentary Storytelling, SXSW LUNA® Chicken & Egg Award (Wang), 2018 South by Southwest Film Festival
- Runtime
- 80
- Genre
- Documentary
- Country of origin
- USA
