She's Not There
The title of this film from Malaysian filmmaker James Lee could easily serve as that of a grand romantic epic, or perhaps one of the...
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Jul 7, 20072 min read
Sancho Does Asia | Ah Beng Returns
While an absence - that of a certain Ah Beng - hovers over the set of human configurations of a small Chinese gang - this one declines...
May 22, 20076 min read
Strange Bedfellows
Two very varied feature films opened recently, the first two parts of a planned trilogy on love by acclaimed indie filmmaker James Lee....
Apr 25, 20073 min read
James Lee's Aesthetics
Malaysian director James Lee is a sublime chronicler of despair. He discovers something hypnotically fascinating in an emotion that most...
Apr 13, 20075 min read
Stéphane Mas: Adultery through vacuum cleaning
How to show a disappearance without seeing the one on process in the heart of a couple ? Here, the disappearance of a woman leaving her...
Apr 4, 20073 min read
Sancho Does Asia review
Difficult to imagine a title of film at once as little poetic and really intriguing. And yet, it is true that it is pretty, this apple...
Oct 18, 20063 min read
Screen International Daily: Before We Fall In Love Again
Husbands and their wives' lovers have never hit it off as well as they do in Before We Fall In Love Again, a strange and tightly...
Feb 5, 20051 min read
Destructive Alienations
A developed film language, a sophisticated film expression and a stylistically established approach to the film material - is something...
Jul 6, 20041 min read
Better Luck Today: Asian Fest Imagines There's No Countries
How much Asian cinema can one city take in a single summer? Last month's New York Asian Film Festival placed some of the continent's...
Jul 28, 20031 min read
Variety Review: ‘Room To Let’
A boarding house in Kuala Lumpur offers a temporary nesting place for an out-of-work reflexologist in Malaysian DV maestro James Lee’s...
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