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Locarno International Competition 2009
Malaysia / Hong Kong / South Korea 35mm 94mins
written and directed by HO Yuhang, produced by Lorna TEE
Since his prize-winning debut with Min, Ho Yuhang has chosen to focus on characters in trouble often people without the perspective or the language to fully understand their own predicaments. To start with, his films were mostly framed in long-shots, as if he was providing the bigger picture that often eluded his characters. More and more, though, hes entering his characters inner worlds and exploring their doubts, fears and manias. And although hes still a matchless observer of contemporary Malaysian realities, this shift is bringing him closer to one of cinemas greatest traditions. Its femme fatale may be only fifteen years old and its confused and solipsistic anti-hero may be just 23, but At the End of Daybreak is, amongst other things, a modern Malaysian film noir. ~ Tony Rayns
Malaysia / Hong Kong / South Korea 35mm 94mins
written and directed by HO Yuhang, produced by Lorna TEE
Since his prize-winning debut with Min, Ho Yuhang has chosen to focus on characters in trouble often people without the perspective or the language to fully understand their own predicaments. To start with, his films were mostly framed in long-shots, as if he was providing the bigger picture that often eluded his characters. More and more, though, hes entering his characters inner worlds and exploring their doubts, fears and manias. And although hes still a matchless observer of contemporary Malaysian realities, this shift is bringing him closer to one of cinemas greatest traditions. Its femme fatale may be only fifteen years old and its confused and solipsistic anti-hero may be just 23, but At the End of Daybreak is, amongst other things, a modern Malaysian film noir. ~ Tony Rayns