Awarded a Silver Bear for Individual Artistic Contribution, the Alfred Bauer prize and the Fipresci Prize at the 55th Berlinale this year; Malaysian-born, Taiwan-based director Tsai Ming-liang's The Wayward Cloud shocks audiences with its explicit sex scenes alternated with kitschy song and dance numbers.
Soh Yun-Huei reviews Gregg Araki's Mysterious Skin, which traces the parallel stories of two young men coming to terms with their sexuality and scarred boyhoods.
In My Father's Den is one of those rare cinematic creatures: It is a quiet and slow-burning film that explores the human geography of grief, jealousy, misunderstanding and revenge. But if you think that those last four nouns alone might imply a sad and depressing time for the audience, you'd be wrong.
Show your support for HIV prevention and community education, catch the "coming-of-age and coming-out" comedy of the year, Summer Storm, on April 20 in Singapore.
Fridae's Alvin Tan catches the supernatural-action thriller Constantine and swoons over the movie's gorgeous anti-hero, otherworldly denizens and their keen fashion sense.
