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On the occasion of his latest film, Macai, having is World Premiere in Rotterdam, Sun-j Perumal talks to Panos Kotzathanasis about his inspirations from noir films for the aesthetics of the movie and his personal experiences for the story, the focus on visuals and music on the film, the many car scenes, working with Dp Gwai Lou and actors Karnan Kanapathy, Irfan Zaini and Kuben Mahadevan and his future projects...
On the occasion of his latest film, Macai, having is World Premiere in Rotterdam, Sun-j Perumal talks to Panos Kotzathanasis about his inspirations from noir films for the aesthetics of the movie and his personal experiences for the story, the focus on visuals and music on the film, the many car scenes, working with Dp Gwai Lou and actors Karnan Kanapathy, Irfan Zaini and Kuben Mahadevan and his future projects...
- 2/3/2025
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Following on “Jagat” and “Fire on Water”, Sun J-Perumal continues to improve his command of the medium, this time coming up with a crime/road movie amalgam which seems to include elements from Lynch and Tarantino. Let us take a closer look.
Macai is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Siam, a drug dealer in the fictional country of Lingapura, which borders Singapore, spends most of his time with prostitutes and his sole friend, Oosi, a family man who always seems to be drunk or on something else. At one point though, Siam misplaces a stash belonging to his brutal kingpin boss, and asks Oosi’s help to get the money to compensate him. Oosi brings in Jack, an old classmate, and the three embark on a road trip in order to get the money, which involves kidnapping the son of a mogul and asking for ransom. Expectedly, things do not go as planned,...
Macai is screening at International Film Festival Rotterdam
Siam, a drug dealer in the fictional country of Lingapura, which borders Singapore, spends most of his time with prostitutes and his sole friend, Oosi, a family man who always seems to be drunk or on something else. At one point though, Siam misplaces a stash belonging to his brutal kingpin boss, and asks Oosi’s help to get the money to compensate him. Oosi brings in Jack, an old classmate, and the three embark on a road trip in order to get the money, which involves kidnapping the son of a mogul and asking for ransom. Expectedly, things do not go as planned,...
- 2/2/2025
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
The article was initially published in Asian Film Vault, back in 2017
Since these three countries enjoy the lion’s share of the global attention towards Asian cinema, I decided to highlight some 2016 (more or less) films from other Asian countries that definitely deserve some attention. Here are 7 of them, most of which I watched on Five Flavours FIlm Festival
1. Jagat
“Jagat” is a very important film for Tamil cinema in Malaysia, since, apart from taking over a decade to overcome issues with funding, due to its theme, it also changed the competition rules at the Malaysia Film Festival awards, which did not previously allowed films from minorities’ languages to compete.
The script is set in the 90’s and revolves around two parallel axes that occasionally intermingle: The first one concerns Appoy, a 12-year old boy who prefers to watch TV and listen to Michael Jackson than studying. His father, Maniam...
Since these three countries enjoy the lion’s share of the global attention towards Asian cinema, I decided to highlight some 2016 (more or less) films from other Asian countries that definitely deserve some attention. Here are 7 of them, most of which I watched on Five Flavours FIlm Festival
1. Jagat
“Jagat” is a very important film for Tamil cinema in Malaysia, since, apart from taking over a decade to overcome issues with funding, due to its theme, it also changed the competition rules at the Malaysia Film Festival awards, which did not previously allowed films from minorities’ languages to compete.
The script is set in the 90’s and revolves around two parallel axes that occasionally intermingle: The first one concerns Appoy, a 12-year old boy who prefers to watch TV and listen to Michael Jackson than studying. His father, Maniam...
- 6/25/2020
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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