Ilo Ilo

Editor's Rating: 
3
Average: 3 (1 vote)
Starring: 
Yeo Yann Yann
Koh Jia Ler
Angeli Bayani
Tian Wen Chen
Directed By: 
Anthony Chen

The momentous debut feature film by our very own Anthony Chen, which took home the coveted Camera d’Or award at Cannes earlier this year, is a straightforward and unpretentious family drama set in the ‘90s during the financial crisis. Based on Chen’s own childhood, Ilo Ilo is uncomplicated and ordinary;  yet it is infused with such tender loving care that there is absolutely no real excuse to fault it.

Opening Date: 
Thu, 2013-08-29
Language: 
English
Running Time: 
1 hr. 39 min
Genre: 
Drama
Images: 
Ilo Ilo
Author: 
Terry Ong

Before Midnight

Editor's Rating: 
2
Average: 2 (1 vote)
Starring: 
Ethan Hawke
Julie Delpy
Directed By: 
Richard Linklater

The chemistry is still there, but the magic has long gone. The third (and hopefully final) part of Richard Linklater’s talky romance-drama helmed by Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy is mundane and cloying (right down to its predictable closer, which echoes Before Sunrise’s). While the first two films were each imbued with a wistful sense of longing, in Before Midnight, Jessie (Hawke) and Celine (Delpy) are finally, gasp, together! And they have two kids! And they’re sick and tired of one another!

Opening Date: 
Thu, 2013-07-25
Running Time: 
1 hr. 49 min
Genre: 
Drama
Images: 
Before Midnight
Author: 
Terry Ong

Bekas

Editor's Rating: 
4
Average: 4 (1 vote)
Starring: 
Zamand Taha
Sarwar Fazil
Directed By: 
Karzan Kader

Sentimental, sappy, overwrought even; but perhaps in an age where we’re so emotionally desensitized with cooler, calculated films, Bekas—with its simplistic storyline of two parentless brothers from war-torn Iraq who dream of running away to America to meet Superman—is the one that eventually moves us most.

Opening Date: 
Thu, 2013-02-28
Language: 
Kurdish
Running Time: 
1 hr. 37 min.
Genre: 
Drama
Images: 
Bekas
Author: 
Terry Ong
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