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“It feels alive”: The Legend of Ochi director on the power of puppets


A chat with Isaiah Saxon about his unique new film and its adorable puppet star.

Her father Maxim (Willem Dafoe in another unhinged A24 film performance) is a conservative, overly-macho man who leads a band of boys to hunt Ochi. It also helps that the creature looks adorable, with large eyes and protruding ears, it's a bit like TheMandalorian's Grogu (AKA Baby Yoda), but with fur. "We've been making shadows on the cave wall for thousands of years, and our brain as we watch the human hand give life to a character is just fully accepting of it."

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