Review | We Are All Strangers: Anthony Chen’s Epic Look at Fatherhood in Singapore
Anthony Chen’s film, the first Singaporean entry for the Berlinale Golden Bear, explores fatherhood and class through immigrant family dynamics in Singapore.
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‘We Are All Strangers’ Review: A Micro-Macro Lens Reveals Beauty and Poetry in the Everyday Lives of a Singaporean Family
A rudderless young man and his hardworking father each experience love, marriage, loss and the fragility of dreams in this concluding part of Anthony Chen’s loosely linked ‘Growing Up’ trilogy.
‘We Are All Strangers’ Review: Anthony Chen’s Immensely Entertaining Singaporean Family Drama Wears Its Heart Earnestly
Berlin: Multiple generations grapple with the onset of adulthood, and the crush of middle age, against a bustling Singapore backdrop in the "Ilo Ilo" and "Wet Season" director's emotionally generous fifth feature.
Winner of the Golden Camera in Cannes in 2013, the Singaporean filmmaker returns to his country to capture, not without melancholy, the transformations.
Berlinale Review: We Are All Strangers Channels Edward Yang to Kitschy But Compelling Ends
The new film from Anthony Chen takes a minute to find its rhythm. For the first hour or so of its admittedly substantial runtime, I couldn’t help but wonder if an LLM, prompted to make the most normcore script imaginable, would be able to conjure a story of such modest simplicity. Stick with it a minute, however, and We Are All Strangers reveals itself to be a film with the ambitions of Edward Yang: which is to say that, barring a lightly insane…
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