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'I' (Ai, Manoharudu) Movie Review by Telugu Viewers: Vikram-Shankar Combo Rocks Again

Director shankar's "i" (ai, manoharudu) starring vikram and amy jackson in leads, has got rave reviews from telugu viewers. read i movie review live update..

Director Shankar's much-awaited movie "I" ("Ai", "Manoharudu") starring Vikram and Amy Jackson in the lead roles, has released in Telangana and Andhra Pradesh on 14 January and garnered mixed reviews from Telugu viewers.

Written and directed by Shankar, "I" is a science fiction romantic thriller film, which revolves around the story of a village guy (Vikram) and model (Amy Jackson). The model becomes a brand ambassador for Olympics in Beijing, defeating the former brand ambassador (Upen Patel). How she makes the villager the most charming model in Beijing will form the crux of the story.

Vikram and Amy Jackson have played lead roles in "I" and both have done their best in the film. Vikram's sterling performance and Amy's glamour are among the main highlights of the film. Suresh Gopi, Upen Patel, Santhanam and Ramkumar Ganesan have played pivotal roles and their performances are also big assets of the movie.

Made on a whopping budget, "I" has rich production elements, which are on par with international standards. AR Rahman's music, PC Sreeram's cinematography, Srinivas Mohan's visual effects, Weta Workshop's prosthetic make-up and art direction are the big attractions of the film, say Telugu audience.

Many movie buffs took to their Twitter pages to express their views on "I". Here is the live update of "I" movie review by Telugu viewers:

Ravi kiran @kinnuPSPK

INTERVAL!! Strictly Below Avg stuff. #I #Vikram Hunchback character @iamAmyJackson Superuu @arrahman Awesome BGM Rest em ledu Done!! #I 2nd half & ah Climax edhaithe undo laal salaam #Vikram is only positive to watch the movie till end Shankar's weakest work.

Saimohan @Saimohan67

Strictly Avg 1st half.. E Gay comedy Lu endi Ra saami.. #I.. Have to see how sankar handled 2nd half. #I definitely not a Shankar's range mvie to watch out.. Completely disappointed.. Can watch once for ARR music n songs.. Sankar sir.. U made my first Tamil FDFS experience terrible.. Crowd is on deep silence all the time :( #I

Naren Reddy @NarensTweetz

Strictly Average first half #I. Pre Interval oka 15 mins nasa thattukodam kashtam... #I. Vikram gadu ferformance matram chitakkottestunnadappa.. #I. Suresh Gopi gaadi naasirakam illanism.. Aaparareyiii.. ! #I Thoroughly disappointed amma Shankaramma #I . Vikram's performance , P.C.Sreeram top notch cinematography, ARR's arachakaimaina BGM & 2 paatalu..Iyye positives #I

Dandanaka Don @Srivathsan_S

#I first half dragging big-time n predictable , but acting is splendid especially Amy is surprisingly good .

Sahul Hameed @sahuly2310

#I superb acting by Vikram and Amy.amazing lens work & BGM,special mention about song visuals,san comedy & makeup but movie is too lengthy. #I definitely not a Shankar's range mvie to watch out.. Completely disappointed.. Can watch once for ARR music n songs..

Mahesh S Koneru ‏@smkoneru 21m21 minutes ago

#I - at the halfway point..Shankar's magic is missing. All I can say is, it is a clear advantage for Gopala Gopala now.. I - costly disaster .. Sad but true.. Feeling very bad for Vikram, Shankar and Aascar

VamsiKaka @vamsikaka

Very lengthy first half. Exotic locales of China, Vikram n Amy are superb. #I Very disappointed with #I . Best thing about #I is @iamAmyJackson . Technically good. This time if there is anyone to blame it's only Shankar. Exactlyyy "@DeepakKodela: Ego shouldn't out judge Edit. #I should be trimmed"

SARKAR ‏@sunil77132

#I 1st Half avg movie, rich locales & PC photography r good, too much transgender scenes r drawback, easily can trim 15 mins. Vikram performance, Good Songs, Photography & Action sequences & a Technical brilliance all goes in Air due 2 weak narration & Script #I

AMB ‏@badusha_ameer

#I @shankarshanmugh simply genius really ur giving all charc importance in screen presence especially climax position I loved it. #Imovie @pcsreeram Really u angels play a role in this flim aiyo aiyo ena ma padam eduthuriga first fight train fight elam chance ila top ga

Subbu's arrogant @SubbuArrogant

I must and should appreciate VIKRAM for his hard work salute jus he made #I #I is a movie which me hud dispointed. Some episodes of #I only #SHANKAR can do but the movie is not up to shakanr's MARK. Vikram Amy nice Pair PC ki salam shots awesome

Sundeep @sunny438

Body building fight bagundi #I Asusual shankar film first half scenes kotaga em ledu #I Slow ga potundi..confusion screen play. #I Interval scene bagundi #I First half average...lenght ekuvaindi #I Interval episode 2nd half last 30 minutes ...super.migaya anta flat ga podi..chala scenes lepeste better #I Its a one man show...vikram sir superb #I Just acting ante evarina cheyochu antaku minchi anknunte matrame vikram la cheyagalaru..#I

Thushy_Sn @Stn_here

#I #Ai - A visual Bonanza from Shankar, Vikram's dedication is unbeliveable. Too early too post a verdict. Good so far. #Ai #I @pcsreeram's camera work is truely equal to International Standard. #I - Visually great. As usual Shankar came with an out of the box presentation. Bt the story is unexciting, and the screenplay drags a bit. Everything seems predictable, the so called twist is not up to the level. It didn't work for me.. #I #Ithemovie. The Villains are cliched.. Missing freshness in their writing.#I is probably the most unsatisfying work from Shankar. It's a personal view..

Jagadeesh @Jagadeesh_MDP

Cut drawers tho fight super..boyapati inspiration anukunta. Mana kanthula gorre scenes good #I. amy jackon soap add srungara priyulaku varam #I. 2nd song starts pareshan ayya #I. Movie shifted to china #I' 3rd song starts.movie flat ga undi #I visual ga e song too good #I 100rupees tho shankar full china country chupistunadu oy keka#I

Bhimavarampkfan @vrcthatholu

Sexy ladio song bagundhi #bhimavaram #i Kuripi 1st lone enter aipoyadu #bhimavaram #i. Santhanam regular comedy start chestadu #i #_bhimavaram. Vikram.amyjackson track chala routine track oka model ni oka normal boy love cheyadam #i #bhimavaram. Mathipoindhe antu Vikram song paduthu maku mathipogettesthunnadu picha comedy Ga vundhi #bhimavaram #i. Modeling lo body building stills echo comedy chesina vikram.superb response #bhimavaram. #i. Chemistry lo nenu sunna physics lo andhra first Vikram dialogue #bhimavaram #i. Namovenkatesa lo venky ni chestunnaru vikram ni #I. Bohr Ga vundhi 1 hour aindhi waiting for interval #bhimavaram #i Title padinapudu vundhi response apatinumdi andharu calm aipoindhi #bhimavaram #i. I title song thotakura LA vundhi #bhimavaram #i

Rajesh @rajeshrach

#I shows ekkadaina start ayyaya 1st half finished in nandyal mixed response #I Ist half lo highlight zym fight anta. #I movie li Evado last 45 min visual wonder annandu ... Narikayeli adini

HitOrPhat Official @HitOrPhat

#I First half completed in Andhra (Premieres). Pre-Interval fight and 2 songs picturisation are said to be nice. Rest is below average.

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2015 ‘ஐ’ Directed by Shankar

A deformed hunchback kidnaps a bride on the day of her marriage and holds her hostage while his connection to her and his targets is revealed in a series of flashbacks that unfold as he starts seeking revenge.

Vikram Amy Jackson Suresh Gopi Upen Patel Ramkumar Ganesan Santhanam Ojas Rajani T. K. Kala Azhagu M.Kamaraj Mohan Kapur Powerstar Srinivasan Yogi Babu R. Sarathkumar Satya Krishnan Raveena Ravi

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Assistant directors asst. directors.

Vishnu l Bhaskaran Mohmmad Yunus Ismail K S Jairam Sharath Jothi

Producers Producers

V. Ravichandran D. Ramesh Babu

Writers Writers

Shankar A.N. Balakrishnan D Suresh

Editor Editor

Cinematography cinematography.

P. C. Sreeram

Additional Photography Add. Photography

Goutham George Siddhartha Swayambhoo

Art Direction Art Direction

T. Muthuraj

Set Decoration Set Decoration

Agin Brabhu Krishnamani

Special Effects Special Effects

Steven Saunders

Choreography Choreography

Bosco Martis Caesar Gonsalves

Composer Composer

A.R. Rahman

Songs Songs

Madhan Karky Kabilan

Sound Sound

AS Laxmi Narayanan Nagavenkat S Jayant Vajpayee

Costume Design Costume Design

Deepali Noor Mary E. Vogt

Makeup Makeup

Davina Lamont Sean Foot Warren Dion Smith

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Alternative Titles

Ai, Manoharudu, I - Manoharudu, ஐ தமிழ், i, 我最丑陋的真相, マッスル踊る稲妻

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04 jan 2015, 14 jan 2015, releases by country.

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• Theatrical PG-13

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Review by onion

lots of reasons i thought i hated this (the extremely prominent homophobic/transmisogynist subplot is the Fucking Worst) but then for weeks afterward i kept doing the "more than that" finger twirl and laughing alone in my room, and i thought that perhaps i should reevaluate. yeah, the extended-flashback structure completely kneecaps the pacing. as if i'm here for some bullshit like "narrative". these are some of the most acutely absurd action setpieces and disgustingly opulent musical numbers in the entire shankar filmography. it is the festering ground of his highest highs and lowest lows. so what if it's mostly the latter. it's not a shankar unless it makes me want to kill myself at least a little bit.

Review by Michael James ★★ 1

A stylish revenge entertainer that’s packaged with all the usual trademark Shankar’s elements, but unfortunately the predictable narrative structure, cliched dull scenes and overstretched runtime pulls the engagement factor down heavily. At the end, Vikram’s heart and soul performance with mind blowing physical transformations and AR Rahman’s lovable music are about the only takeaways in an otherwise below average drama.

Review by irmavep ★★ 8

The good parts are so good (and I’ve truly never seen anything like this) but the bad parts are so cruel and hateful that they swallow everything else up...

Review by AshCrow ★★★★

Death? No, more than that.

I is Love I is Pain I is Devil I is Revenge but most of all... I is batshit insane

Trailer: https://youtu.be/phW8jZfEISs

Review by k8 ★★★½

idgaf what shankar thinks - dude clearly lost his marbles decades ago - but i hope ranjith teaches chiyaan about trans people... we're not all villains bro!! well, i mean, i am, but--

edit: i hate myself

Review by Vichu Vivek ★★

Wow, what a letdown.

+ves: -Vikram.(Who has proven that he's the Christian Bale of Indian Cinema when it comes to physically transforming himself into a character.) -Amy Jackson is stunning. -The whole I virus concept.

-ves: -Script; Everything is predictable, the "twist" included. -Laggy. -Flat humour, especially towards the end. -Suresh Gopi.

It's a shame this movie ends up being such a boring, cliched experience, especially considering the fact that the main plot is actually interesting. The story could've been handled in a better way, but I just totally misses the mark. Mediocre at best.

Review by maximillian ★ 3

If you want a movie about a disfigured man harming those who have ruined his life that has crazy cool visuals, thrills, fantastic performances, and a genuinely empathetic story….watch The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971). If you want to watch a film that has moments of visually interesting ideas, but is mostly an extremely long, progressively worse sexist and transphobic clusterfuck…watch I  (2019).

It’s not a complete piece of trash. Like I said, there is a lot of creativity and unique visually going on here. If I had to describe this film in one word it would be ambitious , and that’s something to be admired in its own right. It simply fails to rise to its calling. Which is understandable: I don’t…

Review by Santanu Patra ★★★★★ 3

O tum👰 bin dekho 👀 Kya se kya ho baitha🤷‍♂️ Tumko👈 jo khoya to😵 Khudko bhi kho baitha🤷‍♂️ Mujhko 🚶‍♀️tu dhoonde🔎 To khudko🙇 main paa loonga😘 Main tere👸 badle mein🙇 Jannat🌃 bhi laa dunga💪 Tum💃 todo 🔨na dil 💔mera😭

Review by Ajinkya Ghatol ★★★★½

Criminally underrated.

Review by shaheerjpeg ★★★½

Maximalist filmmaking. Every aspect of this is grand and maximalist. The film DOES NOT, and i repeat, DOES NOT, settle for the bare minimum. Absolutely insane stuff

Review by PUNQ ★

Visually i (2015) is playful, but all the other aspects of this film abysmal. The plot is horrendous! A body builder turned hunchback freak looking for revenge?!! There was so little coherent plot that they had to cram it full of pointless music videos, which had nothing to do with the story by the way, and advertisements. This movie showcase perfectly why the so called western world practically puke by the mention of Indian movies, fucking up the reputation and wider exposure for the quality movies that does get made in the country. The fact that it is, at writing moment, closing in on 12,000 votes (among the 150 most rated films of 2015!) with a 7,7 rating on IMDB, says a lot!

Review by NikhilRao13 ★★★

People fucking up science and making each other ugly.

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• Movie Releasing in 15000 Screens All over the World and Among them 10000 are in China
• I is the first Ever South Indian Film Releasing In Pakisthan
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• He Grew upto 130 Kilos for a Body Builder Role and Reduced to 40Kilos for a Goon Role
• He has Been kept inside a Fridge for 2 month with body full of Makeup
• He Changed 2 Different 6 Pack Structures, one is for Model Role and Another Body Builder 
• He appears in a Complete Bald Look with a Really Clean Shaved Head
• He Portrayed 4 Different Role in this film as Model, Body Builder, Goon and Beast
• He Dubbed for all three Characters in Three Different Voices
• Beast Getup Dubbing made him Throat Infection
• Serious Body Condition while transforming.40 KG,80 10,130 KG different weights
• He Worked Around Three Years for this film by leave

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In this Manoharudu film, Vikram , Amy Jackson played the primary leads.

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anand 3346 Days Ago

its very Nice Story and Vikram Acting is very good Animation and Fitting is Very well new thought Story is Very Well and Sandhanam comedy is Very Nice and Director shankar Handled this Movie is Very Well totaly This Movie Very Nice of you and Secon..

kishore 3356 Days Ago

its boring movie and boring songs very waste dont go waste of money

Pradeep 3361 Days Ago

"I" is a Super film shankar direction & vikram acting, other characters are paly very well hats off to all unit of (manoharudu) iwatch this mve 3 times in theatre rating 4.5/5

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This is one of best movie I had ever seen in my life.....hats off to vikrams dedication and acting........double paisa vasul movie....everyone must watch in theature....u will be amazed as"I"

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Shankar is one film maker in India whose films are eagerly awaited all over. His latest presentation is ‘I’ which has the National Award winning actor Vikram in a lead role. After all the hype and hysteria, this film has finally hit the screens today. Let’s see how it is.

Lingesh(Vikram) is an upcoming body builder who is deeply and madly in love with an actress named Diya(Amy Jackson). One fine day, Diya approaches him to act in an Ad film with her. She gives him the necessary make over, and in the process of the shoot, the couple fall in love with each other.

Twist in the tale arises when Diya’s professional enemies run down a deadly virus into Lingesh’s body which turns his life upside down. Rest of the story is as to how an diseased Lingesh takes revenge on those who made his life a living hell.

Plus Points:-

Vikram is undoubtedly one of the biggest assets of the film. The efforts that he has put in for his role are clearly visible on screen. He is outstanding as a body builder, and pushes the edge with his appearance and acting as the hunchback guy. The way he has showcased pain and grief even with his heavy make up is just wonderful.

Amy Jackson is apt in her role and looks gorgeous. Visuals are top notch and the entire credit should definitely go to Shankar for thinking something different and in a grand scale. All the songs have been shot well and production values are superb.

Make up done for Vikram is of international standard and elevates his character to another level. While the first half has decent entertainment, the second half is serious and emotional. Upen Patel does well in his negative role, and so are Santhanam and Suresh Gopi.

Minus Points:-

Too much of hype and expectations spoil the outcome of this film. Shankar has raised the bar so high with his previous films but sadly, I fails to meet those expectations. No where in the film you get a feel that it is a Shankar film. He adds unnecessary elements and drags the film in many places.

Last fifteen minutes of the first half are below par, and the love story showcased during this part is quite boring. The film moves back and forth in time, and the screenplay takes a severe beating here. May be for the first time in his career, Shankar has misplaced songs in the narrative.

Yet another major drawback is the excessive length of the film. A lot of scenes and fights could have easily been trimmed. Once the twist is revealed in the second half, the movie gets predictable.

Technical Aspects:-

‘I’ is a brilliant film technically. A R Rahman’s music is good and so is the background score. As said earlier, the make up and prosthetics used for Vikram’s character are mind blowing. P C Sreeram’s camerawork is stunning and gives the film an international look. All the episodes that are shot in China have been shot beautifully.

The sets designed and scale of the movie is surely up to Shankar’s standard. Telugu dubbing is decent and so are the dialogues. Screenplay by Shanakar lacks focus in many areas as you do not get attached to film emotionally. The way Vikram’s character goes about taking revenge on his enemies in the first half have been hurried up and is unclear.

On the whole, ‘I’ is surely Shankar’s weakest film till date. Excessive length, weak story and lack of emotional connect are basic drawbacks. But keeping the festival season in mind, Shankar’s grand visuals added with Vikram and Amy Jackson’s mind blowing performance, this film can be given a shot. Only thing you need to do is go in without any expectations whatsoever.

123telugu.com Rating : 2.75/5 Reviewed by 123telugu Team

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Civil War review – Alex Garland’s delirious dive into divided US society

Fratricidal warfare has exploded in North America, and war photographers including Lee (Kirsten Dunst) are eager to capture the money shot in this violent action thriller

W riter-director Alex Garland stages a spectacular if evasively apolitical “civil war” in this futurist-dystopian action thriller, involving hundreds of extras lying on the road next to upturned blackened cars with CGI-mutilated buildings in the smoky distance. The film’s fence-sitting reluctance to name any of the issues that might actually result in a civil war arguably means that the film can be enjoyed by the widest possible audience base. But the whole thing does finally snap into shape for a Call of Duty melee in the heart of American democracy, an ugly denouement possibly riffing on the January 6 Capitol attack, in which something seems to be clearly at stake and which (belatedly) gives us a glimpse of believable horror and delirium.

The scene is an America whose evident but unspecified divisions have exploded into open fratricidal warfare. The states of Texas and California are now ruled by the rebellious secessionists, the Western Forces, or WF, making massive advances on Washington DC, a situation about which the president ( Nick Offerman ) is in denial, making delusional TV addresses about how well he’s doing.

A group of photojournalists now plans to make the terrifyingly dangerous journey in a press SUV behind WF lines, possibly hoping to tag along with their advance on the capital, each secretly dreaming of the ultimate money shot: the capture or execution of the commander-in-chief. Veteran war photographer Lee is played by Kirsten Dunst with a permanently sorrowing and disapproving schoolteacherly expression of dismay; her buddy is Reuters reporter Joel (Wagner Moura) who is the warfare-adrenaline junkie, euphoric after each scary shoot up. (“Holy fuckin’ shit! What a fuckin’ rush!”) Ageing veteran Sammy (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is a New York Times reporter, the voice of wisdom. Just-out-of-college newbie Jessie, played by Cailee Spaeny, cheekily sweet-talks Joel into letting her ride along in their grownups’ car and almost overnight turns from a callow student into a cool wiseacre. They have conversations, in the time honoured manner of fictional war journalists, about whether journalism makes a difference and about what they would be prepared to photograph etc – but weirdly don’t talk about what has caused this civil war.

It is clearly a reasonably diverse group, although it is this very diversity that gives us an easier task of guessing which of them is going to make a self-sacrificial gesture of courage to save the others. For their journey, Garland gives them freaky and surreal episodes and encounters, underscored by interesting and emphatic musical choices that mimic their dissociative trauma, although sometimes these episodes will be suddenly curtailed. At one stage they’re pinned down by a sniper in an abandoned outdoor play area with Christmas music bizarrely playing … the next thing we know they’re safely back in the car. How? It’s a strange, violent dream of disorder, drained of ideological meaning.

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Movie Review: Should you watch ‘Sasquatch Sunset’ about a family of Bigfoots? Not yeti

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Jesse Eisenberg in a scene from the film “Sasquatch Sunset.” (Bleecker Street via AP)

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough, and Nathan Zellner in a scene from the film “Sasquatch Sunset.” (Bleecker Street via AP)

This image released by Bleecker Street shows Jesse Eisenberg and Christophe Zajac-Denek in a scene from the film “Sasquatch Sunset.” (Bleecker Street via AP)

Jesse Eisenberg attends the premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at Metrograph, Monday, April 1, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Jihae Kim attends the premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at Metrograph, Monday, April 1, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

The Octopus Project’s Yvonne Lambert, Josh Lambert and Toto Miranda, from left, arrive for the Texas premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at the Paramount Theatre during the South by Southwest Film Festival on Monday, March 11, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

Christophe Zajac-Denek attends the premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at Metrograph, Monday, April 1, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

Christophe Zajac-Denek, David Zellner, Nathan Zellner and Jesse Eisenberg, from front left, arrive for the Texas premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at the Paramount Theatre during the South by Southwest Film Festival on Monday, March 11, 2024, in Austin, Texas. (Photo by Jack Plunkett/Invision/AP)

Emily Meade attends the premiere of “Sasquatch Sunset” at Metrograph, Monday, April 1, 2024, in New York. (Photo by Evan Agostini/Invision/AP)

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Do you reckon Sasquatches snore? C’mon, you know the answer, deep down. Of course, they do. They snore and eat noisily and pick bugs out of each other’s fur and then eat those bugs, noisily.

What else do Sasquatches do, you wonder? One of the wildest movies of the year — or the century, for that matter — suggests they mourn, cuddle, bury their dead, enjoy throwing rocks in rivers, make art and wonder if they’re alone in the world.

Even so, “Sasquatch Sunset” from filmmaking brothers David and Nathan Zellner , is a bewildering 90-minute, narrator-less and wordless experiment that’s as audacious as it is infuriating. It’s not clear if everyone was high making it or we should be while watching it.

Nathan Zellner, Jesse Eisenberg, Riley Keough and Christophe Zajac-Denek play a makeshift family of four Sasquatches, lost in hair suits and prosthetics and communicating only in grunts, snorts and howls. They also pee a lot.

Why the filmmakers hired such starry actors instead of paying scale to some unknowns is puzzling. None of the Sasquatches do more than what could be called Method Chimpanzee — jumping up and down, whooping and growling. A group of real chimps would ding the quartet for overacting.

As an exercise in creating empathy for monsters, “Sasquatch Sunset” does an admirable job. In the first frames, when we see a loping Bigfoot in the middle distance — and then three more — it’s clear that they are telling this story, not the folks who usually capture them in shaky camera frames.

There are plenty of Sasquatches-are-just-like-us moments, like when one brings flowers to seduce another or two Bigfoots comfort each other after a death. Perhaps the most poignant moments are when they pound trees with sticks in unison, a rhythmic question that echoes through the valley. It’s a call, waiting for a response — anyone out there like us?

But then there’s a lot of gross-out stuff. We’ve mentioned the peeing, but it turns out that Sasquatches sneeze, procreate loudly and like to touch their genitals and then smell their fingers. They can also poo on demand and throw that poo to scare off predators.

One juvenile Bigfoot makes his hand into a makeshift puppet and talks to it — like a nod to the kid in “The Shining” — and another considers inserting his manhood into a small tree hole, like a prehistoric riff off that famous scene in “American Pie.”

Both things can be true, of course: Bigfoot can be disgusting and deep at the same time. But it’s not always clear what the filmmakers are going for here — satire, metaphor, sympathy, naturalism or gross-out comedy?

The Sasquatches reveal deeply human characteristics and may be stand-ins for our innocent pasts, a lost link in our evolution, showing the unrelenting violence of natural life or just the voiceless among us now. Or the filmmakers might just like the image of tossing poo.

Gorgeous vistas of pristine forests and misty valleys don’t help us figuring out when this all takes place but gradual clues emerge, including evidence of logging and a truly surreal bit at a human camping site, scored by the Erasure song “Love to Hate You.” But if the Zellners had an environmental lesson here, they shanked it.

There’s great music from The Octopus Project, veering from bright electric guitar noodles to sci-fi electronic dread reminiscent of “2001: A Space Odyssey.” Stick through the roll of end credits and see one of the best credits ever in film: Sasquatch Wrangler. You don’t see that every day. You don’t see Sasquatch movies every day, either, but this is one you should probably let lope past you.

“Sasquatch Sunset,” a Bleecker Street release that lands in some theaters on April 12 and goes wider April 19, is rated R for “for some sexual content, full nudity and bloody images.” Running time: 89 minutes. One star out of four.

MPAA definition of R: Restricted. Under 17 requires accompanying parent or adult guardian.

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A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable. A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable. A year in the life of a unique family. It captures the daily life of the Sasquatch with a level of detail and rigor that is simply unforgettable.

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‘chicken for linda’ review: a touching coming-of-age cartoon caper made with the finest ingredients.

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The film is packed with lots of gags yet takes its time to explore Linda and Paulette’s mutual sadness in the wake of Giulio’s death, while also introducing a cast of lively characters who belong to the working-class milieu they all stem from. If some of the jokes can be broad and childish (the film probably plays best for the 10-and-under set), the overall tone is so tender that you can’t help but be moved by Linda’s nonstop adventures. In the end, her obstinacy winds up paying off, allowing her to come to terms with her father’s loss while having a grand ole time time with her pals.

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“Coup de Chance,” the latest from Woody Allen, looks and plays like many of his recent movies, only better; it sounds like them, too, except that it’s in French. Set entirely in France, it features well-heeled, loquacious narcissists who circle one another in a comic-dramatic story that touches on existential worries and folds in lightly jaundiced observations about life. There are pretty people and handsome homes, repressed lives and unleashed desires, the usual. As is often the case in Allen’s movies, there’s also an act of infidelity, which presents a dilemma, if not an especially torturous one. The jokes are fairly muted; some are funny.

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Thereafter, everything quickly falls into place. Fanny and Alain have one lunch and then another, and before long they’re in bed in his fairy-tale garret apartment. The affair rocks her, yet while Laâge lets you see that her character’s pulse has quickened and her eyes seem brighter, whatever the liaison has stirred in Fanny’s soul isn’t of interest to Allen. There are no shots of the lovers lying sex-drunk in bed, entwined in each other’s arms; only the amber light of Vittorio Storaro’s cinematography suggests there’s any heat in the room. And when Fanny tells a friend that the affair excites her, you have to take her word for it.

“Coup de Chance” is more sketched-in than satisfyingly detailed. Most of the characters are types, and despite some local color, the story might as well play out in New York, but it’s amusing, technically adept and looks like a professionally made movie (no small thing in the streaming age). The mood and tone remain consistently light, even as Allen piles on the teasingly ominous details, including a mysterious death that hovers in the background, as well as some thugs and private detectives who lurk on the sidelines. He also introduces a great character with Fanny’s mother, Camille (the invaluable Valérie Lemercier), whose conveniently timed visit with her daughter leads to the movie’s strongest, funniest bits.

Not long into “Coup de Chance” it becomes clear that Allen isn’t much interested in the affair as a human experience, profound or not; his focus is on its fallout and the cascade of dramatic events that ensue after Jean begins to suspect Fanny. Once he does, the story’s center of gravity increasingly lists toward him. It isn’t a happy shift, at least at first, partly because Fanny is more appealing than Jean is. By that point, Allen has seeded the story with suggestive details about the couple: She fears that their friends see her as a trophy wife (they do), while Jean’s attentiveness seems controlling, at times creepy.

If your sympathies remain with Fanny, it’s partly because Laâge’s unforced naturalism draws you to her character while Poupaud’s heightened, at times borderline caricature can be almost aggressively off-putting. Poupaud can be a subtly expressive actor, so the broadness of his performance initially reads as a mistake, as if he — like so many of Allen’s actors — had been left to figure out the character on his own and went in the wrong direction. Whether that’s how it played out, the net effect serves the story and Allen’s views on human affairs of the heart and conscience. “People carry sins around,” as someone says in “Crimes and Misdemeanors,” one of Allen’s greatest films. “It passes — with time, it all fades.”

Coup de Chance Rated PG-13 for gun violence. In French, with subtitles. Running time: 1 hour 33 minutes. In theaters.

Manohla Dargis is the chief film critic for The Times. More about Manohla Dargis

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