My Love Sinema | |
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Directed by | Tan Ai Leng |
Produced by | Irene Ang |
Starring | |
Production company | FLY Entertainment |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Singapore |
Language | Mandarin |
Budget | $1.5 million |
My Love Sinema ( Chinese: 放映爱), is a 2016 Singaporean drama film directed by Tan Ai Leng. [1] [2] [3] The film is set in the 1950s, and later transitions to modern day. [4] [5]
Twenty-year-old Kheong moves from a Malay kampung to Singapore to train as a film projectionist. There, he meets Wei, a young Chinese teacher and a leftist radical. He soon falls in love with her.
The film was originally meant to be released on 29 August 2016. [9] The film released in theatres in Singapore on 8 September. [10] It was also screened in Japan on 8 September. [11] The film was released in theatres in Japan on 8 September. [12]
John Lui of The Straits Times rated the film two-and-a-half stars out of five, praising the part of the film set in the 1950s, while criticising the third act, writing "In a third-act blunder, the movie lurches forward in time to a mind-numbingly hysterical set of events in the present day, filled with silly coincidences and overstuffed bits in which as many actors as possible say as many lines as possible." [13] Luo Yingling rated the film two stars out of five, criticising the acting. [14]
My Love Sinema | |
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Directed by | Tan Ai Leng |
Produced by | Irene Ang |
Starring | |
Production company | FLY Entertainment |
Release date |
|
Running time | 92 minutes |
Country | Singapore |
Language | Mandarin |
Budget | $1.5 million |
My Love Sinema ( Chinese: 放映爱), is a 2016 Singaporean drama film directed by Tan Ai Leng. [1] [2] [3] The film is set in the 1950s, and later transitions to modern day. [4] [5]
Twenty-year-old Kheong moves from a Malay kampung to Singapore to train as a film projectionist. There, he meets Wei, a young Chinese teacher and a leftist radical. He soon falls in love with her.
The film was originally meant to be released on 29 August 2016. [9] The film released in theatres in Singapore on 8 September. [10] It was also screened in Japan on 8 September. [11] The film was released in theatres in Japan on 8 September. [12]
John Lui of The Straits Times rated the film two-and-a-half stars out of five, praising the part of the film set in the 1950s, while criticising the third act, writing "In a third-act blunder, the movie lurches forward in time to a mind-numbingly hysterical set of events in the present day, filled with silly coincidences and overstuffed bits in which as many actors as possible say as many lines as possible." [13] Luo Yingling rated the film two stars out of five, criticising the acting. [14]