Six years after the international success of “Ilo Illo”, Anthony Chen is back with another ambitious family drama, which also reunites him with his former protagonists, Yeo Yann Yann and Koh Jia Ler.
“Wet Season” is screening at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Mandarin-language teacher Ling lives a life that stretches from mundane to genuinely sad. Her marriage is in shambles, as her busy husband, Andrew, is always absent, frustrated with their continuous, but unsuccessful efforts to have a child, which have lasted for 8 years. Ling however, still tries and continues undergoing a painful IVF treatment, but she is on her own. Furthermore, she has to take care of her bed-ridden father, who spends all his days watching old kung-fu movies (some will notice King Hu there) and has to face attitudes that reach the borders of contempt in school, by both students and fellow teachers, as her subject is considered of secondary importance.
“Wet Season” is screening at the 60th Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Mandarin-language teacher Ling lives a life that stretches from mundane to genuinely sad. Her marriage is in shambles, as her busy husband, Andrew, is always absent, frustrated with their continuous, but unsuccessful efforts to have a child, which have lasted for 8 years. Ling however, still tries and continues undergoing a painful IVF treatment, but she is on her own. Furthermore, she has to take care of her bed-ridden father, who spends all his days watching old kung-fu movies (some will notice King Hu there) and has to face attitudes that reach the borders of contempt in school, by both students and fellow teachers, as her subject is considered of secondary importance.
- 11/7/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
With the bittersweet drama “Wet Season,” Singapore writer-director Anthony Chen again proves himself a perceptive observer of life and social class in his tropical nation-state and a sensitive chronicler of issues confronting women. , and directed with striking maturity and restraint. Like his 2013 debut, the Cannes Camera d’Or-winner “Ilo Ilo,” this sophomore feature draws on details from his personal life and further benefits from the casting of two of that film’s leading players: the luminous Yann Yann Yeo as the vulnerable educator and the vibrant Koh Jia Ler as her student. Further festival action and niche art-house play should follow the world premiere in Toronto’s Platform competition.
Modest, dignified and caring, the late-thirtysomething Ling (Yeo), a native Malaysian, teaches Mandarin to teens at a top boy’s academy, where both she and her subject are undervalued in favor of math and science. In advance of the grade 4 O-levels,...
Modest, dignified and caring, the late-thirtysomething Ling (Yeo), a native Malaysian, teaches Mandarin to teens at a top boy’s academy, where both she and her subject are undervalued in favor of math and science. In advance of the grade 4 O-levels,...
- 9/11/2019
- by Alissa Simon
- Variety Film + TV
Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s second film following his Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo is nearing completion.
Screen can reveal a first look of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s new film Wet Season.
It is Chen’s long-awaited second feature following his Cannes Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, who also appeared in Ilo Ilo, stars as a Chinese language teacher whose home and work lives are coming apart at the seams as she struggles to conceive a child. Comfort arrives in the shape of an unlikely friendship with a young student played by...
Screen can reveal a first look of Singaporean filmmaker Anthony Chen’s new film Wet Season.
It is Chen’s long-awaited second feature following his Cannes Camera d’Or winner Ilo Ilo, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, who also appeared in Ilo Ilo, stars as a Chinese language teacher whose home and work lives are coming apart at the seams as she struggles to conceive a child. Comfort arrives in the shape of an unlikely friendship with a young student played by...
- 2/6/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Comic Book Reviews: DC Comics Round Up Week 10/12/2016
A little late this time around, but never forgotten! This week I take a quick look at the developing stories from DC’s Rebirth line up. While not a huge week for story development, we do get to wrap up a few plots and open the doors to a few more!
Action Comics #965
Story: Dan Jurgens Art: Stephen Segovia, Art Thibert, Arif Prianto, Dave Sharpe
Review: So with Superman seemingly unable to prove anything nefarious about this new Clark Kent, it’s up to Lois to try to figure out what’s going on! To do that she pretends to the Lois Lane of New 52 Universe, and as expected things don’t go completely as planned. Jurgens continues to do an excellent job here with how he handles the characters. Everyone feels right, in that their motivations, manner of speech and actions...
A little late this time around, but never forgotten! This week I take a quick look at the developing stories from DC’s Rebirth line up. While not a huge week for story development, we do get to wrap up a few plots and open the doors to a few more!
Action Comics #965
Story: Dan Jurgens Art: Stephen Segovia, Art Thibert, Arif Prianto, Dave Sharpe
Review: So with Superman seemingly unable to prove anything nefarious about this new Clark Kent, it’s up to Lois to try to figure out what’s going on! To do that she pretends to the Lois Lane of New 52 Universe, and as expected things don’t go completely as planned. Jurgens continues to do an excellent job here with how he handles the characters. Everyone feels right, in that their motivations, manner of speech and actions...
- 10/18/2016
- by Jeremy Scully
- LRMonline.com
Stars: Paul Higgins, Kate Dickie, Jérôme Kircher, Corinne Masiero | Written and Directed by Tom Geens
John (Higgins) and Karen (Dickie) used to have it all. They had uprooted from Scotland with their son to a small, yet idyllic cottage in the beautiful Pyrenees Mountain range of France. However, tragedy struck by the way of a fire that not only left them homeless, but even worse; childless. With their life destroyed, the pair decide to shut themselves off from the rest of the world and live off the land and take shelter in an isolated cave. After Karen is bitten by a deadly spider, John is forced to make his way in to the nearby town in search of some medicine for his wife. Although desperate to save his wife, an apparition of his recently deceased son causes him to panic and he begins to retreat. Thankfully, local farmer Andre (Kircher...
John (Higgins) and Karen (Dickie) used to have it all. They had uprooted from Scotland with their son to a small, yet idyllic cottage in the beautiful Pyrenees Mountain range of France. However, tragedy struck by the way of a fire that not only left them homeless, but even worse; childless. With their life destroyed, the pair decide to shut themselves off from the rest of the world and live off the land and take shelter in an isolated cave. After Karen is bitten by a deadly spider, John is forced to make his way in to the nearby town in search of some medicine for his wife. Although desperate to save his wife, an apparition of his recently deceased son causes him to panic and he begins to retreat. Thankfully, local farmer Andre (Kircher...
- 4/27/2016
- by Mondo Squallido
- Nerdly
Terrific acting carries Tom Geens’s harrowing study of a grieving couple who decide to live wild in the Pyrenees
The second feature by Belgian-born director Tom Geens means what it says. It’s about a couple, and they’re in a hole, literally. Traumatised by the death of their son, Karen (Kate Dickie) and John (Paul Higgins), a Scottish couple living in the Pyrenees, have taken up residence underneath a fallen tree and live like troglodytes, shunning human company. This strange film is a ruralist cross between British psychological realism and the wilder, Artaud-inflected fringes of French art cinema. Although it doesn’t quite sustain its intensity to the end, Geens sticks uncompromisingly to the narrative’s emotional logic, while Sam Care’s photography evokes a subtle nightmare in moss green. The acting is terrific all round, with Dickie – so good recently in The Witch – increasingly resembling a female answer to Christian Bale,...
The second feature by Belgian-born director Tom Geens means what it says. It’s about a couple, and they’re in a hole, literally. Traumatised by the death of their son, Karen (Kate Dickie) and John (Paul Higgins), a Scottish couple living in the Pyrenees, have taken up residence underneath a fallen tree and live like troglodytes, shunning human company. This strange film is a ruralist cross between British psychological realism and the wilder, Artaud-inflected fringes of French art cinema. Although it doesn’t quite sustain its intensity to the end, Geens sticks uncompromisingly to the narrative’s emotional logic, while Sam Care’s photography evokes a subtle nightmare in moss green. The acting is terrific all round, with Dickie – so good recently in The Witch – increasingly resembling a female answer to Christian Bale,...
- 4/10/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Terrific acting carries Tom Geens’s harrowing study of a grieving couple who decide to live wild in the Pyrenees
The second feature by Belgian-born director Tom Geens means what it says. It’s about a couple, and they’re in a hole, literally. Traumatised by the death of their son, Karen (Kate Dickie) and John (Paul Higgins), a Scottish couple living in the Pyrenees, have taken up residence underneath a fallen tree and live like troglodytes, shunning human company. This strange film is a ruralist cross between British psychological realism and the wilder, Artaud-inflected fringes of French art cinema. Although it doesn’t quite sustain its intensity to the end, Geens sticks uncompromisingly to the narrative’s emotional logic, while Sam Care’s photography evokes a subtle nightmare in moss green. The acting is terrific all round, with Dickie – so good recently in The Witch – increasingly resembling a female answer to Christian Bale,...
The second feature by Belgian-born director Tom Geens means what it says. It’s about a couple, and they’re in a hole, literally. Traumatised by the death of their son, Karen (Kate Dickie) and John (Paul Higgins), a Scottish couple living in the Pyrenees, have taken up residence underneath a fallen tree and live like troglodytes, shunning human company. This strange film is a ruralist cross between British psychological realism and the wilder, Artaud-inflected fringes of French art cinema. Although it doesn’t quite sustain its intensity to the end, Geens sticks uncompromisingly to the narrative’s emotional logic, while Sam Care’s photography evokes a subtle nightmare in moss green. The acting is terrific all round, with Dickie – so good recently in The Witch – increasingly resembling a female answer to Christian Bale,...
- 4/10/2016
- by Jonathan Romney
- The Guardian - Film News
Dean (Jensen Ackles) exclaims, "They've got Dad (Jeffrey Dean Morgan). As far as he knew Dad was only going to to meet with Meg (Nicki Aycox). He then says the demon's got Dad. They don't know how many are out there and only three bullets are left. Dean thinks they may be able to trade him for the Colt. Dean doesn't want to do this anymore and says they should "screw the job." Sam (Jared Padalecki) however now wants to do what Dad would want - "He would want us to keep going." Dean: "Quit talking about him like he was already dead." Dean's plan is to go for help and get Bobby (Jim Beaver) as they need help. Sam tells him demon's won't leave a trail, then mentions the Book of Solomon and how protective circles will work to trap a demon. Bobby claims there have been 3 or 4 demonic...
- 12/6/2011
- by mhasan@corp.popstar.com (Mila Hasan)
- PopStar
London, Friday 1 July 2011: The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) is delighted to announce the names of the 42 Brits to Watch who will be the focus of the inaugural BAFTA Brits to Watch. The event will take place on Saturday 9 July at the Belasco Theater in Los Angeles. BAFTA’s President, Hrh The Duke of Cambridge, and Hrh The Duchess of Cambridge will attend the event as part of their visit to California, helping highlight the incredible depth and range of great British talent currently emerging in film, television and video games. The 42 Brits have been selected by a BAFTA panel based on a number of criteria. They will generally not be complete beginners in their industry, and will have already begun to show real promise. They are: Rory Aitken, Producer James Bobin, Writer/Director Jessica Brown Findlay, Actress David Buckley, Composer Jamie Bull, Editor Sam Care,...
- 7/1/2011
- by MIKE FLEMING
- Deadline
When Prince William and Duchess Catherine touch down in the States next week, they'll be getting the Hollywood treatment - along with 42 other up-and-coming British stars. On their California itinerary for July 9, the royal couple are set to attend the British Academy of Film and Television Arts "Brits to Watch" event, which Nigel Lythgoe is helping to organize. The event will "highlight the incredible depth and range of great British talent currently emerging in film, television and video games," according to a BAFTA release on Friday, providing the guest list. Photos: Prince William & Kate Middleton Take Canada!So who made the cut?...
- 7/1/2011
- by Alison Schwartz
- PEOPLE.com
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