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Shirkers

  • 20182018
  • TV-14TV-14
  • 1h 37m
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7.4/10
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Sandi Tan in Shirkers (2018)
In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called "Shirkers"-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi-now a novelist in Los Angeles-on a new personal odyssey across two continents and many media: 16mm, digital, Hi8, Super8, slides, animation and handwritten letters.
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A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.A woman explores the events surrounding a film she and her friends began making with a mysterious stranger decades ago.
IMDb RATING
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5.3K
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    • Sandi Tan
    • Sandi Tan
  • Stars
    • Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Philip Cheah
    • Sophia Siddique Harvey
    • Sandi Tan
    • Sandi Tan
  • Stars
    • Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Philip Cheah
    • Sophia Siddique Harvey
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    • 88Metascore
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    Jasmine Kin Kia Ng
    • Self
    • (as Jasmine Ng)
    Philip Cheah
    • Self
    Sophia Siddique Harvey
    • Self
    Sharon Siddique
    • Self
    Fung Liang Foo
    • Self
    Pohshon Choy
    • Self
    Yek Keak Tay
    • Self
    Ben Harrison
    • Self
    Grace Dane Mazur
    • Self
    Stephen Tyler
    • Self
    Georges Cardona
    • Self
    • (archive footage)
    • (uncredited)
    Sandi Tan
    Sandi Tan
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      In 2018, Sandi Tan premiered her film at the Sundance Film Festival and earned the World Cinema Documentary Directing Award. She was the second Singapore-born filmmaker to win. (The first went to another Tan: Kirsten Tan, for Pop Aye, the previous year.)
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      Features The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
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    8/10
    Unique and touching
    Works on a lot of levels - as a glimpse into indie/counterculture in Singapore in 1992 with a distinctive young woman's voice, as an exploration into the psychological abuser who absconded with her film (what an asshole this guy was!), and as a study in reconnecting with friends decades later, taking them all back to a special time and place, and then viewing themselves from a distance. It's outrageous and maddening, but at the same time, touching and lovely. Very well done by Sandi Tan, and I would love to see a dubbed version of the original film.
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      • October 26, 2018 (United States)
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