In this film brimming with mischievous humor, Liew Seng Tat shows us how easy it is to overlook children's needs, especially when the adult -- in this case mannequin maker Sui -- is in denial about ...

Why is it so difficult to represent childhood convincingly onscreen? The widespread assumption is that the mere image of the very young brings out the filmmaker’s urge for emotional manipulation and ...

Not showing anything like an authorial personality means never having to say you’re sorry. Lazy “realism” is even good for an award or two on the law-of-averages festival circuit—Pusan and Rotterdam, ...

Liew Seng Tat's film is brimming with the filmmaker's unique brand of mischievous humor and the same twisted imagination evident in his shorts and animations. By Maggie Lee, The Associated Press Pusan ...

The awards keep coming for "Flower in the Pocket," a slip of a film whose genuine humor and lack of pretension, not to mention palpable warmth, set it above the general run of new Malaysian cinema.