I Was a Simple Man

The film won the Grand Jury Award at the San Diego Asian Film Festival.^[6] It also won the Grand Jury Prize at the Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival and the Made in Hawai‘i Award at the Hawai‘i International Film Festival.^[7][8]

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 88% of 24 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.00/10. The website's consensus reads: "I Was a Simple Man tells a simple story whose deceptively straightforward approach yields richly melancholic rewards."^[9] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 83 out of 100, based on 9 critics, indicating "universal acclaim". It was named the fourth best film of 2021 in the New Yorker Magazine, where film critic Richard Brody called it "one of the great films about death."^[10] Roxana Hadadi wrote on RogerEbert.com that the film is a "100-minute spell of beauty and melancholy, intimate and grand in equal measure",^[11] while David Ehrlich of IndieWire called it "masterful" and dubbed it a "Critics Pick".^[12]

• I Was a Simple Man at IMDb
• I Was a Simple Man at Rotten Tomatoes

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