Singapore's film scene punches well above its size, and Yeo Siew Hua's noir thriller A Land Imagined brought it real international attention when it won the Golden Leopard at Locarno in 2018. It's a cinema shaped by the city-state's multicultural tensions, migrant labour, and restless urban identity. Take a look at what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 2.5★
There is a long and restless tradition in world cinema of using the horror genre as a vessel for social and political anxieties, particularly around bodies, identity, and the pressures of conformity. From the body-horror provocations of Cronenberg through to the folk-inflected dread of more recent European and
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★½ — A Land Imagined (2018)
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