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Barbarian Invasion

Opening Film Tan Chui Mui | 2021 | Hong Kong, China/ Malaysia | 106min | Fiction
Director: Tan Chui Mui丨Producer:Woo Ming Jin丨Producer: Bianca Balbuena丨Writer: Tan Chui Mui丨Editor: Wong Kai Yun丨Cinematographer: Gwai Lou丨Production Designer: Fish Lim Jing Yi丨Sound Designer: Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr丨Music: Kamal Sabran丨Cast: Pete Teo, Tan Chui Mui, Bront Palarae, James Lee, Zhiny Ooi, Nik Hadiff Dani

Synopsis

Working on his next film, Roger invites his long-time collaborator Moon to a writing retreat in a seaside town. 

While Moon had not been acting for 10 years, her recent divorce had made her decide to take on Roger’s offer, a lead role in a do-your-own stunts Southeast-Asian Bourne Identity…



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Tan Chui Mui

At the age of 5, Tan Chui Mui made a small wooden stool. At 8, she drove a pick-up truck onto a column. At 9, she printed a children's magazine. At 12, she finished reading an Encyclopedia. At 17, she had a column in a student weekly paper. At 21, she received a computer animation degree. At 27, she made her first film LOVE CONQUERS ALL. At 38, she gave birth to a child. At 41 she decided to learn martial arts.


Director's statement

Many years ago, I asked Bruno Dumont a rather childish question, “What is cinema?”

He thought for a while, and answered me in all seriousness, “This is a metaphysical question, it is no different from if you asked me, what is life?”

It seems like there is a mysterious relationship between cinema and life.

My film is just a question.

Barbarian Invasion