Shirkers (Shirkers)

Watched in 2019 (214 movies items)

"2.8. Olin alkuun aivan ihmeissäni, miksi Netflix olisi ottanut valikoimaansa singaporelaisen indie-elokuvan tekemisestä kertovan dokumentin. Sitten elokuvaa katsoessani tajusin, ettei kyse ole niinkään elokuvan tekemisestä, vaan törkeän groomailijan meiningin seuraamisesta. Täysi-ikäisyyden keskellä olleet singaporelaisnaiset halusivat tehdä indie-elokuvan, ja suuri elokuvatietäjämies pyöri heidän kanssaan täysin-ei-seksuaalisessa-mielessä tuhlaten samalla muiden rahoja omaan e"

Film Journal 2019 (225 movies items)

"First watched January, rewatched July. Continues to be a surprisingly touching time capsule of not just the milieu it prominently features but a certain youthful defiance of the world around you that makes you forgive a lot of the more cliché tendencies in the narrative and the audiovisual department. "

2018 Movies Ranked (53 movies items)

" IMDb Score: 7.5 | Tomatometer: 100%"

“Would like to see and understand more about the lost film. It is spread in disorder, but it has its charm becuase of that. Shirkers was maybe a shit, the story of Cardona is better than that. Tell it to Sandi Tan...” read more

Sundance Film Festival 2018 (110 movies items)

"U.S.A. Director and Screenwriter - Sandi Tan, About - In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan shot Singapore's first indie road movie with her enigmatic American mentor Georges – who then vanished with all the footage. Twenty years later, the 16mm film is recovered, sending Tan, now a novelist in Los Angeles, on a personal odyssey in search of Georges' vanishing footprints. "