- Oscar-winning director Taika Waititi has labelled film reviewers as “sad lost souls” after his adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel Klara and the Sun received widespread critical backlash.
- The dystopian drama stars Jenna Ortega as an android companion to a sick teenager and currently holds a 26 per cent critics score on Rotten Tomatoes compared with a 78 per cent audience rating.
- Reviewers heavily criticised the adaptation, with The Independent describing it as a downgrade from the source material and others labelling it a sentimental and laborious mess.
- The film has underperformed at the box office, collecting approximately $1.74m worldwide against a $20m budget, leading Sony to scale back its US release and cancel its theatrical run in Spain.
- Waititi defended his approach, stating that he wanted to infuse his signature comedic tone into the adaptation while attempting to respect the quiet emotional core of the original book.
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