An autistic boy’s parents respond to his condition in markedly different ways in Beautiful Pain, a compassionate drama that uses its Malaysian settings to eloquent effect. Though it occasionally tips into overemphatic melodrama, the first theatrical feature by Tunku Mona Riza is mostly a measured, tender study. Released on home turf earlier this year under the title Redha, the film features an exceptionally good performance by 8-year-old Harith Haziq as Danial, whose autism eventually forces his in-denial father to do some growing up.
Riza, who directed a couple of TV movies before this film, is attuned to the sensory experience...
Riza, who directed a couple of TV movies before this film, is attuned to the sensory experience...
- 11/17/2016
- by Sheri Linden
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Exclusive: The Halfwords-actor will direct and star in the English-language project.
Malaysian actor and filmmaker Bront Palarae is developing a feature based on the true story of a stock market raid that returned Malaysia’s rubber plantations to local ownership.
Palarae plans to direct the project, Dawn Raid: The Hands That Rattled The Queen, which is currently in development at his production outfit Pixel Play.
Scripted by Redza Minhat and Chew Kin Wah, it recounts events in 1981 when plantation owner Guthrie Group, originally a British trading company, was brought under Malaysian control after the government engineered a raid at the London Stock Exchange.
The English-language project has secured development funding from Malaysia’s National Film Development Corp (Finas). Palarae’s acting credits include Nova and Joko Anwar’s HBO Asia series Halfworlds.
The project is one of a group of select titles with international potential that the Creative Content Association Malaysia (Ccam), the marketing arm of Finas...
Malaysian actor and filmmaker Bront Palarae is developing a feature based on the true story of a stock market raid that returned Malaysia’s rubber plantations to local ownership.
Palarae plans to direct the project, Dawn Raid: The Hands That Rattled The Queen, which is currently in development at his production outfit Pixel Play.
Scripted by Redza Minhat and Chew Kin Wah, it recounts events in 1981 when plantation owner Guthrie Group, originally a British trading company, was brought under Malaysian control after the government engineered a raid at the London Stock Exchange.
The English-language project has secured development funding from Malaysia’s National Film Development Corp (Finas). Palarae’s acting credits include Nova and Joko Anwar’s HBO Asia series Halfworlds.
The project is one of a group of select titles with international potential that the Creative Content Association Malaysia (Ccam), the marketing arm of Finas...
- 2/15/2016
- by lizshackleton@gmail.com (Liz Shackleton)
- ScreenDaily
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