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A Land Imagined

2018

Yeo Siew Hua

Peter Yu, Luna Kwok, Xiaoyi Liu, Jack Tan, Ishtiaque Zico

6.1

482

Thriller. Mystery A lonely construction worker from China goes missing at a Singapore land reclamation site, and a sleepless police investigator must put himself in the mind of the migrant to uncover the truth beneath all that sand.

	Author	Review
United States	Jay Weissberg Variety	"A noir that will feel overly familiar to those looking for more than well-intentioned musings on the horrendous treatment of foreign workers. (...) the film privileges style over coherence, indulging in pointless time shifts and giving short shrift to too many characters."	NEU
United States	Boyd van Hoeij The Hollywood Reporter	"[It] often feels derivative in terms of its style and [it] doesn't have the storytelling goods to let all these different influences coalesce coherently."	NEG
United Kingdom	Allan Hunter Screendaily	"The mood is fatalistic and there is the sense that the case of one individual will reveal bittersweet truths about the state of the nation (...) The result forces the viewer to consider notions of truth and reality"	POS
United States	Rory O'Connor The Film Stage	"Yeo attempts something even bolder here but can’t quite keep it together and ends up sacrificing that crucial modicum of cogency that such surrealism demands, which really is a great shame as there is so very much to love in his film"	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"It’s fascinating to watch Yeo tumble down into the depths, but eventually it starts to feel as though he’ll never hit the bottom"	NEU

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