The first part of Year Without a Summer is set largely in the moonlight. On the evening when the singer Azam returns to the village he was so eager to flee as a little boy, he goes fishing in a boat with his friend Ali and his friend’s wife Minah.
They bob around in a boat as they tell each other old myths. When Minah shows she can hold her breath for three minutes and Azam does the same later, the camera waits calmly with the others until the time has passed. But for Azam that starts to last a very long time.
Tiger-Award winner Tan Chui Mui (Love Conquers All, 2007) uses many long shots in a style that alternates between realistic and mystical. The second part of the film is a retrospective look at the childhood of the two friends. For Azam, that time was spent waiting to grow older. Patience and desire are the main themes in this cinema poem in which fantasy and reality, present and past, become intertwined.
Film details
Productieland
Malaysia
Jaar
2010
Festivaleditie
IFFR Unleashed
Lengte
90'
Medium/Formaat
35mm
Taal
Malay
Première status
-
Director
Tan Chui Mui
Producer
Liew Seng Tat
Sales / World rights holder
Winnie Chiang, Da Huang Pictures
Principal cast
Nam Ron
Sound design
Pete Teo
Screenplay
Tan Chui Mui
Editing
Tan Chui Mui
Cinematography
Teoh Gay Hian
Music
Azmyl Yunor
Production company
Da Huang Pictures
Distributor NL / Benelux rights holder
Hubert Bals Fund
Stream Year Without a Summer
Deze film is beschikbaar voor streaming voor toegang log in of huur de film via onderstaande knop.