Beautiful, interesting, incredible cinema.
AS YOU WERE
Synopsis
Guohui and Peiling were childhood sweethearts who met again after years of being apart and became a couple. On an idyllic island south of Singapore, they spend their last moments together as their relationship falls apart.
Synopsis
Guohui and Peiling were childhood sweethearts who met again after years of being apart and became a couple. On an idyllic island south of Singapore, they spend their last moments together as their relationship falls apart.
Our take
Singaporean director Liao Jiekai crafts this hypnotic, layered look at a childhood relationship and the changeability of memory. Singapore’s colonial past and present are folded into this fable-like drama, which finds, in island life and shimmering water, rich visual poetry and metaphor.