Yeo Siew Hua, the Singaporean director whose “A Land Imagined” won the Locarno Film Festival’s top prize in 2018, has cast acclaimed Taiwanese actors Lee Kang-Sheng and Wu Chien-Ho (“A Sun”) in his new “Stranger Eyes.”
The film, a thriller with domestic surveillance at its core, is currently shooting. It is set to wrap post-production by early 2024 and start a festival run thereafter. International sales are handled by France’s Playtime.
The Golden Horse-nominated Wu plays Darren, a struggling young father whose baby daughter has gone missing. When mysterious footage appears of his private and intimate life, Darren suspects that his neighbor Goh, a supermarket supervisor, is the voyeur linked to his daughter’s disappearance. Goh is portrayed by Lee, who is best-known for his three-decade-plus collaboration with Golden Lion-winning director Tsai Ming-liang. Increasingly frantic, Darren takes it upon himself to stalk Goh, meaning that the hunted becomes hunter.
“It...
The film, a thriller with domestic surveillance at its core, is currently shooting. It is set to wrap post-production by early 2024 and start a festival run thereafter. International sales are handled by France’s Playtime.
The Golden Horse-nominated Wu plays Darren, a struggling young father whose baby daughter has gone missing. When mysterious footage appears of his private and intimate life, Darren suspects that his neighbor Goh, a supermarket supervisor, is the voyeur linked to his daughter’s disappearance. Goh is portrayed by Lee, who is best-known for his three-decade-plus collaboration with Golden Lion-winning director Tsai Ming-liang. Increasingly frantic, Darren takes it upon himself to stalk Goh, meaning that the hunted becomes hunter.
“It...
- 8/18/2023
- by Patrick Frater and Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
The comeback movie of indie filmmaker and pioneer of Malaysian New Wave Cinema, Tan Chui Mui, after 10 years of directing hiatus, is an unpredictable, genre-fluid meta film. “Barbarian Invasion” was realised under the project “Back to Basics” by Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited and Heaven Pictures, that assigned a budget of Rmb¥1,000,000 to filmmakers and challenged them to produce a high-quality film without frills. Her work is doing rather well in the festival circuit, having won the Jury Grand Prix prize, one of the two top honours at the Golden Goblet Awards, in conjunction with the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.
“Barbarian Invasion“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The film follows Moon Lee (directress Tan Chui Mui) a well-respected actress who’s taken few years off after having a child and a painful divorce. She is immediately introduced as exhausted and barely coping with her...
“Barbarian Invasion“ is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The film follows Moon Lee (directress Tan Chui Mui) a well-respected actress who’s taken few years off after having a child and a painful divorce. She is immediately introduced as exhausted and barely coping with her...
- 11/22/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The comeback movie of indie filmmaker and pioneer of Malaysian New Wave Cinema, Tan Chui Mui, after 10 years of directing hiatus, is an unpredictable, genre-fluid meta film. “Barbarian Invasion” was realised under the project “Back to Basics” by Hong Kong International Film Festival Society Limited and Heaven Pictures, that assigned a budget of Rmb¥1,000,000 to filmmakers and challenged them to produce a high-quality film without frills. Her work is doing rather well in the festival circuit, having won the Jury Grand Prix prize, one of the two top honours at the Golden Goblet Awards, in conjunction with the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival.
“Barbarian Invasion” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
The film follows Moon Lee (directress Tan Chui Mui) a well-respected actress who’s taken few years off after having a child and a painful divorce. She is immediately introduced as exhausted and barely coping with her...
“Barbarian Invasion” is screening at New York Asian Film Festival
The film follows Moon Lee (directress Tan Chui Mui) a well-respected actress who’s taken few years off after having a child and a painful divorce. She is immediately introduced as exhausted and barely coping with her...
- 8/16/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
“Barbarian Invasion” wins the Jury Grand Prix in the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet Awards on 19 June. The film is presented by Heaven Pictures, in co-production with The Hong Kong International Film Festival Society.
Tan Chui Mui, a staple of the Malaysian New Wave, returns to the international film scene with third feature film “Barbarian Invasion”, filling the roles of director, writer and lead actor, her poignant and fun piece on body sovereignty, motherhood and martial arts. She brings much of her old crew back in front of the cameras, Pete Teo, James Lee and Bront Palare give strong performances in the film while Woo Ming Jin produces alongside Bianca Balbuena, known for her work with Lav Diaz.
In awarding “Barbarian Invasion”, the jury stated, “This film takes a genre that is familiar to us all and turns it on its tail. Its handling of pace is pitch perfect,...
Tan Chui Mui, a staple of the Malaysian New Wave, returns to the international film scene with third feature film “Barbarian Invasion”, filling the roles of director, writer and lead actor, her poignant and fun piece on body sovereignty, motherhood and martial arts. She brings much of her old crew back in front of the cameras, Pete Teo, James Lee and Bront Palare give strong performances in the film while Woo Ming Jin produces alongside Bianca Balbuena, known for her work with Lav Diaz.
In awarding “Barbarian Invasion”, the jury stated, “This film takes a genre that is familiar to us all and turns it on its tail. Its handling of pace is pitch perfect,...
- 6/22/2021
- by Rouven Linnarz
- AsianMoviePulse
Tan Chui Mui returns to the international film scene with Barbarian Invasion, her poignant and fun piece on body sovereignty, motherhood and martial arts. Barbarian Invasion will launch at the 24th Shanghai International Film Festival (Siff), in competition for the Golden Goblet Award.
Of the selection, Director Tan says, “There will be many old friends attending Shanghai International Film Festival. I felt like a mischievous kid, I’d put a frog in a box, now just anxiously waiting, anticipating, trying to imagine their face when they open the box….”
Tan Chui Mui
Barbarian Invasion follows a washed-up actor who is offered a comeback opportunity after a devastating divorce only to find her ex-husband cast opposite her.
Tan, a staple of the Malaysian New Wave which swept the festival circuit by storm in the early noughts, brings much of her old crew back in front of the camera. Pete Teo, James...
Of the selection, Director Tan says, “There will be many old friends attending Shanghai International Film Festival. I felt like a mischievous kid, I’d put a frog in a box, now just anxiously waiting, anticipating, trying to imagine their face when they open the box….”
Tan Chui Mui
Barbarian Invasion follows a washed-up actor who is offered a comeback opportunity after a devastating divorce only to find her ex-husband cast opposite her.
Tan, a staple of the Malaysian New Wave which swept the festival circuit by storm in the early noughts, brings much of her old crew back in front of the camera. Pete Teo, James...
- 6/2/2021
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
As it happens to the main character of the film, the director Liang Ying’s last 5 years has been some kind of a chaotic trip. He directed the film “When Night Falls” in 2012, where he treated the events occurred in China on 2008, where a man was sentenced to death for killing 6 police officers . As a result of this controversial project, the director Liang Ying was pressured by the authorities and had to go into exile in Hong Kong, where he has been living all these recent years.
“A Family Tour” is streaming on Mubi
“A Family Tour” is his first feature film after that incident, a project softly touching the documentary genre, where he treats in a very personal way all the problems and experiences he had to go through (and might be going through) these past years since 2012, because despite a few differences in some identities, the main conflict...
“A Family Tour” is streaming on Mubi
“A Family Tour” is his first feature film after that incident, a project softly touching the documentary genre, where he treats in a very personal way all the problems and experiences he had to go through (and might be going through) these past years since 2012, because despite a few differences in some identities, the main conflict...
- 12/6/2020
- by Pedro Morata
- AsianMoviePulse
Hong Kong Arts Centre: Moving Images announces their May programme, which includes their regular Golden Scene Selection, Independently Yours: Together We Stand and Independently Yours: Taking Back the Legislature + Inside the Red Brick Wall as well as the Hong Kong Arts Centre x Hong Kong Film Festival – Independently Yours: Memories to Choke On, Drinks to Wash Them Down, the delayed February programme which has finally been rescheduled for June.
Golden Scene Selection – June
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2020.06.23 – 2020.06.29
Price: Standard ticket: $80. Tickets are now available at Putyourself.in.
“Golden Scene Selection”, proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) and Golden Scene Company Limited, will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the Hkac.
Screening Schedule
23/6 (Tue) 8pm Radioactive (Preview)
24/6 (Wed) 8pm Beyond The Dream (Preview)*
25/6 (Thu) 8pm A Family Tour*
26/6 (Fri) 8pm After the Wedding
27/6 (Sat) 3pm...
Golden Scene Selection – June
Venue: Louis Koo Cinema, Hong Kong Arts Centre
Date: 2020.06.23 – 2020.06.29
Price: Standard ticket: $80. Tickets are now available at Putyourself.in.
“Golden Scene Selection”, proudly presented by the Hong Kong Arts Centre (Hkac) and Golden Scene Company Limited, will bring the audience a series of cherry-picked selections from around the world at the Hkac.
Screening Schedule
23/6 (Tue) 8pm Radioactive (Preview)
24/6 (Wed) 8pm Beyond The Dream (Preview)*
25/6 (Thu) 8pm A Family Tour*
26/6 (Fri) 8pm After the Wedding
27/6 (Sat) 3pm...
- 6/16/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
As it happens to the main character of the film, the director Liang Ying’s last 5 years has been some kind of a chaotic trip. He directed the film “When Night Falls” in 2012, where he treated the events occurred in China on 2008, where a man was sentenced to death for killing 6 police officers . As a result of this controversial project, the director Liang Ying was pressured by the authorities and had to go into exile in Hong Kong, where he has been living all these recent years.
“A Family Tour” is his first feature film after that incident, a project softly touching the documentary genre, where he treats in a very personal way all the problems and experiences he had to go through (and might be going through) these past years since 2012, because despite a few differences in some identities, the main conflict of “A Family Tour” is the exact...
“A Family Tour” is his first feature film after that incident, a project softly touching the documentary genre, where he treats in a very personal way all the problems and experiences he had to go through (and might be going through) these past years since 2012, because despite a few differences in some identities, the main conflict of “A Family Tour” is the exact...
- 2/11/2019
- by Pedro Morata
- AsianMoviePulse
Nicolas Cage, accompanied by Australian actress and producer Nikki Whelan, trod the red carpet on Saturday night as part of the opening festivities at the third edition of the International Film Festival and Awards.
Set as a talent ambassador, Cage held small group seminars earlier on Saturday. On Sunday he will hold a masterclass.
His presence helped compensate for a couple of high-profile mainland Chinese talent absentees, presumably summoned North for the Huabiao Awards taking place in China the same evening.
The breezy opening event included a specially composed song and dance routine, a whirl of clips from films that will unspool over the coming week, and an elaborate ticket-slotting set-piece.
International guests in attendance included director of Copenhagen Pix Film Festival Jacob Neiiendam; director of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk; director of Sydney Film Festival, Nashen Moodley; artistic director of Chicago International Film Festival, Mimi Plauche; director of Busan International Film Festival,...
Set as a talent ambassador, Cage held small group seminars earlier on Saturday. On Sunday he will hold a masterclass.
His presence helped compensate for a couple of high-profile mainland Chinese talent absentees, presumably summoned North for the Huabiao Awards taking place in China the same evening.
The breezy opening event included a specially composed song and dance routine, a whirl of clips from films that will unspool over the coming week, and an elaborate ticket-slotting set-piece.
International guests in attendance included director of Copenhagen Pix Film Festival Jacob Neiiendam; director of Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival Tiina Lokk; director of Sydney Film Festival, Nashen Moodley; artistic director of Chicago International Film Festival, Mimi Plauche; director of Busan International Film Festival,...
- 12/9/2018
- by Patrick Frater
- Variety Film + TV
Three filmmakers explained how they’re using music to deliver political messages and explore their countries’ complex histories.
Three Southeast Asian filmmakers discussed how they’re using different forms of music – from Indonesia’s Krongcong genre to hip-hop – to deliver political messages and explore their countries’ complex histories, in a session on Tiff’s Crosscut Asia section on Friday.
Treb Monteras II described how he used rap to talk about the Philippines’ martial law era and the current war on drugs in his recent festival hit Respeto. “The film is really about the unending cycle of violence in the Philippines...
Three Southeast Asian filmmakers discussed how they’re using different forms of music – from Indonesia’s Krongcong genre to hip-hop – to deliver political messages and explore their countries’ complex histories, in a session on Tiff’s Crosscut Asia section on Friday.
Treb Monteras II described how he used rap to talk about the Philippines’ martial law era and the current war on drugs in his recent festival hit Respeto. “The film is really about the unending cycle of violence in the Philippines...
- 10/27/2018
- by Liz Shackleton
- ScreenDaily
Screening at multiple festivals and nominated for awards at both Locarno and Hamburg for ‘Best Political Film’ and ‘Best Film’ respectively, the semi autobiographical ‘A Family Tour’ is Ying Liang’s first film since 2006’s critically acclaimed ‘When Night Falls’. The prevailing years since being the inspiration for his new feature, Ying tells the story of a young independent filmmaker using a film festival in Taiwan as a way to spend time with her exiled mother.
A Family Tour is screening at Busan International Film Festival
‘A Family Tour’ travels us through Taiwan with our protagonists film called ‘Mother of One Recluse’, an identical story to that of Ying’s own ‘When Night Falls’ with a tale of a distraught mother who’s son has been accused of a very serious crime. Travelling with her husband and young child, they follow her exiled mother’s tour bus under the ever...
A Family Tour is screening at Busan International Film Festival
‘A Family Tour’ travels us through Taiwan with our protagonists film called ‘Mother of One Recluse’, an identical story to that of Ying’s own ‘When Night Falls’ with a tale of a distraught mother who’s son has been accused of a very serious crime. Travelling with her husband and young child, they follow her exiled mother’s tour bus under the ever...
- 10/6/2018
- by Nathan Last
- AsianMoviePulse
Gyorgi Palfi’s “His Master’s Voice” will line up against Fruit Chan’s “Three Husbands” and Veit Helmer’s “The Bra” in the main competition section of the Tokyo International Film Festival. Ralph Fiennes’ “The White Crow” will also receive its Asian premiere in competition.
The festival announced its full line up Tuesday in Tokyo. The festival will run Oct 25. – Nov. 3, 2018 at venues around the Japanese capital. It previously announced Japanese films, “Another World” and “Just Only Love” in main competition.
Another earlier announcement revealed that the festival will open with Bradley Cooper’s Lady Gaga-starring “A Star is Born.” The festival will close with “Godzilla: The Planet Eater,” the third and final part in the animated “Godzilla” trilogy. Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s “The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps” was Tuesday confirmed as a second closing film.
The 16-film competition selection is balanced between Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas,...
The festival announced its full line up Tuesday in Tokyo. The festival will run Oct 25. – Nov. 3, 2018 at venues around the Japanese capital. It previously announced Japanese films, “Another World” and “Just Only Love” in main competition.
Another earlier announcement revealed that the festival will open with Bradley Cooper’s Lady Gaga-starring “A Star is Born.” The festival will close with “Godzilla: The Planet Eater,” the third and final part in the animated “Godzilla” trilogy. Yukihiko Tsutsumi’s “The House Where the Mermaid Sleeps” was Tuesday confirmed as a second closing film.
The 16-film competition selection is balanced between Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas,...
- 9/25/2018
- by Mark Schilling
- Variety Film + TV
Perhaps it’s because “The Family Tour” is semi-autobiographical that this intelligently affecting story of exile and displacement is Ying Liang’s most highly polished film to date. Or more likely, it’s because the five years since his previous feature, “When Night Falls,” have matured his already well-honed aesthetic. Dating back to his powerful 2006 debut “Taking Father Home,” the dissident director has been casting a sharp, unflattering light on Chinese society deformed by decades of Party rule. Currently in exile himself after running afoul of the government, Ying has externalized his conflicted feelings of disconnection in this story of an independent mainland filmmaker living in Hong Kong who can only meet up with her mother in Taiwan, where she has booked her on a strictly monitored tour of the island. Sensitive and surprisingly intimate given Ying’s fondness for long shots, “Family Tour” should travel widely via festival bookings.
- 8/6/2018
- by Jay Weissberg
- Variety Film + TV
Pusan International Film Festival
BUSAN, South Korea -- Filmmaker James Lee premieres the third part of a loose trilogy on love and relationships in modern Malaysia, following "Before We Fall in Love Again" and "Things We Do When We Fall in Love." For those who found Lee's sparse dialogue and minimalist action mesmerizing, "Waiting for Love" will be a treat. For everyone else, it will be a chore. "Waiting for Love" will likely make the festival circuit rounds, particularly fests that screened the earlier films.
In three segments unfolding in what appears to be the same apartment, couples wrangle over relationships and try to determine where to go next. In the first, Lim and Amelia (Lim Kien Lee and Amelia Chen) have been together for a moderate amount of time. He wants to get married; she's not sure they have a future. They argue over a mysterious letter Amelia received from another man and what the letter -- and her reluctance to toss it in the trash -- mean.
In the second section, Pete and Bernice (Pete Teo and Bernice Chauly) have been together even longer. She works; he stays at home, the result of an unidentified illness. She's clearly more engaged in the relationship.
Rounding out the film are Amy and Lai (Amy Len and Loh Bok Lai), a young couple most likely at the beginning of a relationship. They still take the time to be outwardly tender and caring.
As in Lee's preceding films, "Waiting" is light on dialogue and music, leaving the actions, reactions and motivations of the characters open to interpretation. The final entry in the trilogy is less reliant on plot (if it can be said the earlier films had conventional plots), and is a more thematic piece. Lee once again keeps his camera static and cuts to a minimum, with actual words merely mumbled.
With each pair at a turning point in their lives, the subtlest of looks or pauses potentially contain great meaning. Lee is a master of distant observation. Once again, he proves his ability to create reasonably vivid characters with little or few details to work with.
"Waiting for Love" does feel like a rehash of his own earlier, stronger films. In an emergent Malaysian cinema, the refined elegance of Woo Ming Jin's "The Elephant and the Sea" and the complexity of Tan Chui Mui's "Love Conquers All" are the benchmarks to which "Waiting" doesn't measure up.
WAITING FOR LOVE
A Doghouse73 Pictures, Da Huang Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-producer: James Lee
Director of photography: Jimmy Ishmael
Production designer: Tan Hooi Ching
Editor: James Lee
Cast:
Amy: Amy Len
Bernice: Bernice Chauly
Pete: Pete Teo
Lai: Loh Bok Lai
Amelia: Amelia Chen
Lim: Lim Kien Lee
Running time -- 73 minutes
No MPAA rating...
BUSAN, South Korea -- Filmmaker James Lee premieres the third part of a loose trilogy on love and relationships in modern Malaysia, following "Before We Fall in Love Again" and "Things We Do When We Fall in Love." For those who found Lee's sparse dialogue and minimalist action mesmerizing, "Waiting for Love" will be a treat. For everyone else, it will be a chore. "Waiting for Love" will likely make the festival circuit rounds, particularly fests that screened the earlier films.
In three segments unfolding in what appears to be the same apartment, couples wrangle over relationships and try to determine where to go next. In the first, Lim and Amelia (Lim Kien Lee and Amelia Chen) have been together for a moderate amount of time. He wants to get married; she's not sure they have a future. They argue over a mysterious letter Amelia received from another man and what the letter -- and her reluctance to toss it in the trash -- mean.
In the second section, Pete and Bernice (Pete Teo and Bernice Chauly) have been together even longer. She works; he stays at home, the result of an unidentified illness. She's clearly more engaged in the relationship.
Rounding out the film are Amy and Lai (Amy Len and Loh Bok Lai), a young couple most likely at the beginning of a relationship. They still take the time to be outwardly tender and caring.
As in Lee's preceding films, "Waiting" is light on dialogue and music, leaving the actions, reactions and motivations of the characters open to interpretation. The final entry in the trilogy is less reliant on plot (if it can be said the earlier films had conventional plots), and is a more thematic piece. Lee once again keeps his camera static and cuts to a minimum, with actual words merely mumbled.
With each pair at a turning point in their lives, the subtlest of looks or pauses potentially contain great meaning. Lee is a master of distant observation. Once again, he proves his ability to create reasonably vivid characters with little or few details to work with.
"Waiting for Love" does feel like a rehash of his own earlier, stronger films. In an emergent Malaysian cinema, the refined elegance of Woo Ming Jin's "The Elephant and the Sea" and the complexity of Tan Chui Mui's "Love Conquers All" are the benchmarks to which "Waiting" doesn't measure up.
WAITING FOR LOVE
A Doghouse73 Pictures, Da Huang Pictures production
Credits:
Screenwriter-director-producer: James Lee
Director of photography: Jimmy Ishmael
Production designer: Tan Hooi Ching
Editor: James Lee
Cast:
Amy: Amy Len
Bernice: Bernice Chauly
Pete: Pete Teo
Lai: Loh Bok Lai
Amelia: Amelia Chen
Lim: Lim Kien Lee
Running time -- 73 minutes
No MPAA rating...
- 10/6/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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