‘Legend of Ochi’ director overcame a little bit of everything

‘Legend of Ochi’ director overcame a little bit of everything

One of the most memorable scenes in “The Legend of Ochi” finds estranged mom Dasha (Emily Watson), who just so happens to have a wooden hand and lives way up near the sky, opening the door of her car and thereby allowing audiences an eyeful of who she really is. Hers is no ordinary vehicle, a banged-up old truck with a towering haystack in its bed and a dead bird on its dashboard, along with sundry items strewn about inside. All those precise de…

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The Legend of Ochi review – well-crafted but tame family adventure

It is a truth universally acknowledged, at least at the movies, that any child left unattended must be in want of a mythical creature to befriend. One can only imagine how that impulse would be inflamed living somewhere like Carpathia, an island of primeval forests and mist-laden mountains where rural Slavic communities caught out of time – some still riding horse-drawn carriages to mini-marts – dedicate equal time to farming the land and fearin…