Elephants in Love
Combined programme
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IFFR 2007
Bouquet of refined and ironic Asian love films. The realism looks important and is always convincing, but the dream and the irony are more important. All of them mature and mild films by very young film makers. So that is good news from Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. Another Golden Triangle. ( GjZ )
In this combined programme
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Man in Love
The film maker took an afternoon off as assistant on another film and apparently thoughtlessly shot an apparently silly joke. -
Yesterday’s Play
Nitpicking is one word for it in English. In Singapore they probably have a different word for it. Otherwise one will be invented after this… -
Matahari
About melancholy in cheerful and colourful wrapping. Dressed up as the sun yet still not wanting to shine. -
Elefant
Dreamy young man stands face to face with his dream one morning. About love. But for what and who? -
Bedroom Dancing
In March 2006 a man was arrested and fined for masturbating in his own home. This fiction film has been described as Singapore’s most sexually… -
