The Legend of Ochi

The Legend of Ochi

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  • Genre: Family, Fantasy, Adventure
  • Release Date: 2025-04-18
  • Runtime: 95 minutes
  • : 6.3
  • Production Company: A24
  • Production Country: Finland, United States of America
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6.3/10
6.3
From 164 Ratings

Description

In a remote village on the island of Carpathia, a shy farm girl named Yuri is raised to fear an elusive animal species known as ochi. But when Yuri discovers a wounded baby ochi has been left behind, she escapes on a quest to bring him home.

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  • CinemaSerf

    6
    By CinemaSerf
    The young “Yuri” (Helena Zengel) has been brought up to be very wary of, and to hunt ruthlessly, the Carpathian Ochi. These are red, gorilla-like, creatures that inhabit the forest high above the home she shares with her father (Willem Dafoe) and “Petro” (Finn Wolfhard). Her dad blames these creatures for just about every crime in the book, but more especially for corrupting her now estranged mother “Dasha” (Emily Watson) and is determined not to rest until they are all just pelts. Whilst she is tending to one of their numerous traps one evening, she discovers a young creature which she decides to set free and return to its family. When her father reads the fairly abrupt and angry letter she has left him before setting off, he flies into a rage and assembles his cohort of children to pursue her. Can she reconcile the baby with its family and, as importantly, can she reconcile herself with her mother and perhaps even her father, too? It’s quite a decent looking film this, but with neither Wolfhard nor Watson really featuring much it is left to the competently engaging Zengel and some affecting furry animations to carry the story for it’s overlong ninety minutes. Dafoe overacts throughout, and he also looks like he has raided one of Werner Herzog’s costumiers too as he traipses about the mountain in a suit of armour that would not have looked out of place in “Aguirre, Wrath of God”. The “aww, bless” aspects of story fizzle out very quickly and once we have readily grasped the premise that mankind needs to respect nature and it’s other creatures then the plot becomes another dysfunctional family drama that disappoints. It will satisfy fine on the television at Christmas, and might even spawn a cuddly toy or two, but as a feature film it’s a beautifully shot, but lacklustre, effort.

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