As we have seen many times in Malaysian cinema, the shamanism and the supernatural in general are intensely intermingled with everyday life, with Dain Said’s films, for example, highlighting the fact in the most eloquent manner. Chong Keat Aun directs a movie based on incidents from his personal life, taking an approach that moves towards the fantastical after a fashion. The movie earned him the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Awards, but soon afterwards, it was censored for its screening at the 4th Malaysian International Film Festival, for references to traditional folklore which were contrary to Islamic teachings.
“The Story of Southern Islet” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The story revolves around a rural family of four that is built in antithesis. Western-educated Yan is a rationalist, while her husband, locally educated Chang, believes intently in the supernatural and the folklore in general. When...
“The Story of Southern Islet” is screening at Five Flavours Asian Film Festival
The story revolves around a rural family of four that is built in antithesis. Western-educated Yan is a rationalist, while her husband, locally educated Chang, believes intently in the supernatural and the folklore in general. When...
- 11/22/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The Story of Southern Islet Review — The Story of Southern Islet (2020) Film Review from the 74th Annual Locarno Film Festival, a movie directed by Keat Aun Chong, starring Jojo Goh, Season Chee, Hong Herr Wong, Wei Hern Teoh, Ling Tang, Pearlly Chua, Kok Hin Kuan, and Mei-Sim Hoon. Cinema is a memoir set to motion [...]
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Continue reading: Film Review: The Story Of Southern Islet: A Detailed and Dense Slice of Malaysian Folk Horror [Locarno 2021]...
- 8/24/2021
- by Jacob Mouradian
- Film-Book
Childhood memories are something not entirely tangible, they change their shape with the passage of time, they can get blurred, or suddenly disappear and reappear. They are a magical source of nostalgia, elusive, semi-unknown, living their own lives. The Story Of Southern Islet, the debut of Keat Aun Chong, is built on such memories.
The film by the Malaysian director cannot be defined by genre or narrative. It is like a spiritual journey into the past, built of elements that give the impression of non-linear and often scary child-like feelings, full of ghosts and monsters who influence reality. The whole thing is connected by the main storyline: Yan (Jojo Goh) is looking for a cure for her seriously ill husband, Cheong (Season Chee).
Chong captivates the viewers with a myth-like story in which ghosts and beings from the spiritual world take on not always friendly physical forms, as if they came straight.
The film by the Malaysian director cannot be defined by genre or narrative. It is like a spiritual journey into the past, built of elements that give the impression of non-linear and often scary child-like feelings, full of ghosts and monsters who influence reality. The whole thing is connected by the main storyline: Yan (Jojo Goh) is looking for a cure for her seriously ill husband, Cheong (Season Chee).
Chong captivates the viewers with a myth-like story in which ghosts and beings from the spiritual world take on not always friendly physical forms, as if they came straight.
- 8/12/2021
- by Mateusz Tarwacki
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
As we have seen many times in Malaysian cinema, the shamanism and the supernatural in general are intensely intermingled with everyday life, with Dain Said’s films, for example, highlighting the fact in the most eloquent manner. Chong Keat Aun directs a movie based on incidents from his personal life, taking an approach that moves towards the fantastical after a fashion. The movie earned him the Best New Director at the Golden Horse Awards, but soon afterwards, it was censored for its screening at the 4th Malaysian International Film Festival, for references to traditional folklore which were contrary to Islamic teachings.
“The Story of Southern Islet” is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The story revolves around a rural family of four that is built in antithesis. Western-educated Yan is a rationalist, while her husband, locally educated Chang, believes intently in the supernatural and the folklore in general. When Cheong...
“The Story of Southern Islet” is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
The story revolves around a rural family of four that is built in antithesis. Western-educated Yan is a rationalist, while her husband, locally educated Chang, believes intently in the supernatural and the folklore in general. When Cheong...
- 6/4/2021
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Director Herman Yau and star Anthony Wong first collaborated in the legendary exploitation movies “The Untold Story” (1993) and “Ebola Syndrome” (1996). Now they are back in “The Sleep Curse” (2017) to bring us another gory, supernatural thriller that touches on human experiments, the evil and victims of war.
“The Sleep Curse” starts off with some grainy video of a Malaysian Chinese father who suffers from insomnia, which eventually leads to extremely violent and criminal acts. Next up, we are introduced to Dr. Lam (Anthony Wong) a professor, who does research on sleep disorders. It soon turns out that his supervisors are not totally pleased with his experiments and research, so they cut his funding.
Consequently, his ex-girlfriend, Monique (Jojo Goh) turns up one day asking for his help because her family is suffering from insomnia. Since she also comes with a good size cheque, he is more than pleased to help,...
“The Sleep Curse” starts off with some grainy video of a Malaysian Chinese father who suffers from insomnia, which eventually leads to extremely violent and criminal acts. Next up, we are introduced to Dr. Lam (Anthony Wong) a professor, who does research on sleep disorders. It soon turns out that his supervisors are not totally pleased with his experiments and research, so they cut his funding.
Consequently, his ex-girlfriend, Monique (Jojo Goh) turns up one day asking for his help because her family is suffering from insomnia. Since she also comes with a good size cheque, he is more than pleased to help,...
- 9/1/2019
- by David Chew
- AsianMoviePulse
Originally released back in 2011, “The Loan Shark” saw Malaysian director C.L. Hor following up on “The 3rd Generation” and his martial arts outing “Kinta” with a slice of tough though stylish undercover cop crime drama. While shot and set in Malaysia, the film features an interesting cast of familiar Hong Kong faces, including enduring character actors Sam Lee, known for roles in cult favourites such as “Biozombie” and “Dog Bite Dog”, and Johnny To regular Lam Suet (“Election”), singer Rosanne Lui and actress Irene Wan, popular in the 1980s after key roles in the likes of “Rouge” and “Everlasting Love”, and recently in “Triad”. Taking the main lead is local model turned actress Jojo Goh, who stars as Mun Mun, a young woman who along with her brother Ah Lung (Sam Lee) has a great hatred of loan sharks after their father is hounded to death. Fast forward a few years,...
- 7/30/2013
- by James Mudge
- Beyond Hollywood
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