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Khoo Eng Yow’s THE BIRD HOUSE Opens Today In Malaysia
Posted by The Visitor at 12:55am.
Posted in Film & DVD Reviews , Drama, Asia.
Two brothers fight over an old house, while their elderly father watches silently as his sons’ relationship disintegrates. Amidst all this is the uncertain fate of their ancestral home, a centuries-old house in the historical state of Malacca.
Khoo Eng Yow’s debut fictional feature, The Bird House (Niao Wu), is impressive not only for its beautiful cinematography that perfectly captures the mood and atmosphere and the quaint and antique features of the old house, but also for the director’s adept handling of the material. The film delves into pretty heavy issues; it frames its conservation concerns within the story of petty sibling rivalry and the neglect of old folk. But its deeper undercurrents reveal a preoccupation with economic hopelessness and how it drives people to desperate measures and blinds them. Khoo worked from a solid script which he co-wrote. He also edited the film himself.
Khoo, an engineer by training, has made several short films and documentaries, and a feature documentary called Ah Kew The Digger. The Bird House has been to the Tokyo and Fribourg film festivals, and will go on to Wisconsin next.
The film is produced by Red Films, which also produced Amir Muhammad’s The Last Communist, Ho Yuhang’s Sanctuary and James Lee’s The Beautiful Washing Machine.
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