The Legend of Ochi spends a good amount of time building up the conflict between Yuri, her mother, and her father. Yuri spends most of the movie feeling emotionally removed from her parents.

To be fari, The Legend of Ochi is a love-it-or-hate-it affair, and some may see its display of gross, sweaty, moist, tousled, smelly-looking, warts-and-all practical visual effects as endearing in ...

'The Legend of Ochi' A24. Their bond reaches new heights when Yuri realizes that she can speak the Ochi’s language (which sounds a bit like a bird).

Willem Dafoe, Finn Wolfhard A24 . The Ochi’s verbal exclamations attract the attention of Petro, who arrives at Yuri’s door with his rifle drawn.

Such is the case of Yuri, the protagonist of A24’s new film “The Legend of Ochi.” Written and directed by Isaiah Saxon, the film follows Yuri, who’s been raised to fear the ochi species.

Willem Dafoe and Finn Wolfhard in "The Legend of Ochi." (A24) Filmed in the Transylvanian mountains of Romania, Saxon and company capture a pretty stunning array of valleys, caves, rivers and ...

Set on the remote island of Carpathia, Isaiah Saxon’s film introduces Yuri (Helena Zengel) and her father, Maxim (Willem Dafoe), who lead a hunt for the brightly colored, simian-like Ochi. The ...

Later, checking the bear traps, however, Yuri encounters a big-eared baby ochi cowering in a hole, its hind leg bloodied. Squirreling the creature home in her backpack, she assuages its hissing ...

The Legend of Ochi is not streaming on Netflix and likely will not be on Netflix in the U.S. any time soon, due to the fact that the film is an A24 release, and the 2023 deal between A24 and ...

By the time “The Legend of Ochi” was ready to shoot, the operating team was able to interact — and even improvise — with human performers in the moment. (Alexandru Ionita / A24) ...