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Love Suicides
Love Suicides
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LOVE SUICIDES

Xin | 信

Directed by Edmund Yeo
Malaysia, 2009
Short, Drama

Synopsis

Set in an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.

Synopsis

Set in an isolated fishing village of Malaysia, a woman’s relationship with her young daughter descends into a path of self-destruction and abuse when she begins to receive a series of strange and mysterious letters from her long-absent husband.

Our take

This short film by Edmund Yeo is a loose adaptation of a short story by Japanese Nobel Prize-winner Yasunari Kawabata. This dark tale of mental abuse between a mother, her daughter, and an absent father, is absorbing in its mounting tension—a portrayal as realistic as it is mysterious.