The Red Kebaya

Well what a great experience, a film beautifully shot on location in Malaysia, with Malaysian crew and cast which fitted in fantastically with an International audience in London. I very much enjoyed the film on all levels: characters to hate, empathise with, cry with and laugh with, two story lines so cleverly entwined you feel you get double your money and an evocative soundtrack that just pulls at your emotions. Well done to Samantha Schubert who made Mrs Reynolds so easy to despise, I really hope we have moved on since she was around. What I really liked was the neat way it all fitted in, no loose ends so you come away thinking it all through over and over and finding that it all really fits, it could all have happened. Patrick Teoh plays his role brilliantly in his few short, but so well written lines. Go and see this film, take your hankies and be prepared to think, its well worth it.