“After Yang” (** out of four) was an earnest but dull melodrama set in the future in which a workaholic and emotionally distant father (Colin Farrell) comes to reconnect with his wife (Jodie Turner-Smith) and the rest of his family when their artificial intelligence helper breaks down and forces them all to once again re-establish communication and thus love. Yet another pretentious allegory about the dangers of technology and how it results in distance and drives one and other apart; Farrell is good as usual but it’s awfully precious and self-important. Adapted from an award-winning short children’s story “Saying Goodbye To Yang” by Alexander Weinstein but something apparently got lost in translation.