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A middle-aged man seeks a second chance at life after having spent some time in an institution.
category
  • film
team
  • Média
year
  • 2009
city
  • singapore
credits
  • director: ho tzu nyen
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  • writer: ho tzu nyen
  • ---
  • director of photography: jack tan
prizes
  • la quinzaine des réalisateurs du festival de cannes 2009, nominated

Here is the story of H, a mild-mannered, middle-aged man who is seeking a second chance at life after having spent some time in a mental institution.

In reading about new advances in the clinical treatment of mental illnesses, Ho Tzu Nyen came across a report of an experimental therapy in which dysfunctional families were recorded with video, and later made to analyze their own behaviours and relationships.

“This idea filled me with both a sense of excitement —in the therapeutic possibility of film — as well as a sense of uneasiness, which cannot be easily expressed in words.”

Framing this groundbreaking experiment are elements of a love story and a moving tapestry of accounts from the patients, set within an institution.