Malaysian indie filmmakers make beautiful fims. Flower in the Pocket is one such example. Brilliant film. Intense nonetheless, you'll need to have patience and full concentration to appreciate the beauty of it. Arthouse but with subtle touches bordering comical. Hints of influences from Ozu and Hou Hsiao-hisen but credit still goes to director Liew Seng Tat, who manage to infuse his own witty Malaysian style.Naturalistic and beautiful cinematography, despite shooting on a DV camera with miniDV tapes. The young filmmakers from Da Huang are highly admirable. How they manage to shoot digital features and not fall into the trap of only shooting on celluloid film and with big budgets. Their selfless collective spirit, helping one another in their films. The myriad of awards they have won paid the dues of their can-do spirit. Hopefully we can see a similar collective here take off in Singapore soon and do us proud.
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