Tag: Michael Fernandez
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If I Go Will They Miss Me Review: Myth, Memory, and a Father’s Absence
In Walter Thompson-Hernández’s lyrical Sundance drama, twelve-year-old Lil Ant turns his father’s absence into Greek mythology, casting him as Odysseus and then Poseidon, while his mother, Lozita, carries the harder truth. A review of the film’s performances, its dreamlike purple-and-blue cinematography, and its quiet argument that presence is not the same as consistency.