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Programme(s) : Compétition
Malaysia
2009

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The story of two cousin brothers Ah Soon and Or Kia who grew up together in a small village. When they’re adults, Ah Soon got into debt collection business in the city and invites Or Kia to join him to expand his business. Or Kia met Ping who’s Ah Soon new girlfriend and somehow she may become the only person that will connect the two men. And as time passes we see the relationship of these two men become stronger and maybe they will finally understand each other more clearly.

Avis du sélectionneur

A year after the huge success of Malaysia’s horrific Hysteria, the new film by James Lee, also producer and editor for Amir Muhammad and Tan Chui Mui, siblings in Da Huang Pictures, is a gangster based film. Here, they are more used to wearing flip-flops, shorts, T-shirts or football jerseys than luxurious suits (Or Kia admits to Soon not knowing who is Zegna). If in the first half of the movie the director sometimes manages nonsense with derision, James Lee soon paves the way towards something more sinister, letting us guess that at the local folklore table, each scene is like a card that falls and reveals more clearly the game master’s growing desire and anxiety. The game’s rule could be: at each table that we sit at (and there are many in the film), to endangers the equilibrium since each person is first led to negotiate with himself and what he wants and what he risks.
Jérôme Baron





James LeeJames Lee
1973
Malaysia

Filmography
Filmographie sélective : Goodbye to Love (2004), A Moment of Love (2005), Before We Fall in Love Again (2005), Things We Do When We Fall in Love (2007), Hysteria (2008).


Credits :
104' / DigiBeta / Couleur / VOSTA



Screenplay : James Lee
Photography : Liew Seng Tat
Sound : Michael Leow
Editing : James Lee
Music : Ronnie Khoo
Cast : Pete Teo, Sunny Pang, Chua Thien Lee
Producer(s) : Da Huang Pictures

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