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29 February 2012 #416

The Oscars are over and done with for this year! Did you win a bet with your colleagues over any category? Will you be catching or even re-watching an Oscar winner now that the results are out? We wish you the best in the limited re-run of these films in the cinemas.

Our pick for the week is romantic biopic The Lady, where Michelle Yeoh puts on an incredible imitation of Burmese freedom hero Aung Sang Suu Kyi. The film covers the political figure's struggle for her country as well as the moving love story between the lady and her husband, Michael Aris.

In Man on a Ledge, Sam Worthington is an honest but disgraced cop with a far-fetched,one-in-a-million plan to salvage his reputation and expose the villainous conspirators behind his downfall. All while he is the proverbial man on the ledge of a building with a million eyes on him!

5 Days of War is a war film that doesn't quite believe what they say about the first casualty of war being the truth. Funded by Georgian businessmen, this is a blatantly one-sided telling of the 2008 farce of a war between Georgia, Russia, and South Ossetia. Yet for what it's worth, this film is an entertaining, inspiring film that hits all the right notes.

Taking very much the same angle is Angelina Jolie's debut direction, In the Land of Blood and Honey. Fuelled by Jolie's good intentions, this film documents a long series of atrocities against civilians in Bosnia during the Yugoslavian war, while attempting to tell a love story between a camp guard and a woman taken captive as a sex slave.

If you need to watch something utterly inconsequential after the series of Very Serious Films we just recommended, you could do no worse than watch Miley Cyrus play a teenager at the cusp of sexual awakening in LOL.

Till next week,

Vernon Chan

PICK OF THE WEEK
 

The Lady

While this is essentially a very superficial telling of Aung San Suu Kyi's life and political career, Michelle Yeoh is really impressive as Aung San Suu Kyi, and she bears such an uncanny resemblance to the real deal that she can at times be mistaken for the actual person. This is not limited to just the physical appearance, but even in her gestures and general behaviour. Michelle Yeoh's performance is the strongest aspect of the film, but unfortunately the vehicle she is placed in is significantly less impressive.

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2nd Southeast Asian Film Festival
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2 to 31 March 2012, Moving Image Gallery, SAM at 8Q, Singapore
 

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