Wet Season

Name: Wet Season
Genre: Drama
Released: April 23, 2021
Duration: 103 min
Rating: 73
Cast: Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Howie Loh, Koh Jia Ler, Lina Ng, Shi Bin Yang

2021

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Strand Releasing | Release Date: April 23, 2021 | Not Rated

Starring: Christopher Ming-Shun Lee, Howie Loh, Koh Jia Ler, Lina Ng, Shi Bin Yang, Siew Feng Choo, Yann Yann Yeo

Summary: As Mandarin-language teacher Ling continues with fruitless IVF treatment while taking care of her ailing father-in-law, she finds herself slowly drawn towards a promising student who seems to have been abandoned by his parents. Outside it’s monsoon season, but Ling’s inner turmoil looks set to get her into a heap of trouble.

Director: Anthony Chen

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 103 min

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Katie Walsh

Apr 29, 2021

Writer-director Chen, along with the two leads, delicately navigates this story, and the result is something deeply humanist and nuanced rather than sensational, though the rainy milieu adds drama to the proceedings. Read full review

Allan Hunter

Apr 28, 2021

It is easy to see where Wet Season is heading but Chen invests so much in the needs and flaws of the central duo that you want to see how it plays out. Read full review

Alissa Simon

Apr 28, 2021

Chen’s delicate, nuanced portrait of the heartbreaks afflicting a dedicated schoolteacher and dutiful wife is suffused with love and humor, and directed with striking maturity and restraint. Read full review

RogerEbert.com Carlos Aguilar

Apr 23, 2021

If you feel like you know where it’s headed, you are probably correct. But while Chen’s refusal to subvert commonplace elements is disappointing, there’s a sharp note of sorrowful, aching understanding running through the protagonists’ shared ordeal. Read full review

The Film Stage Rory O'Connor

Apr 23, 2021

Chen is never blatantly forthright in showing the prejudice at work in Ling’s day-today, allowing it instead to subtly seep into the film; we need only sift the tea leaves. Read full review

Beatrice Loayza

Apr 22, 2021

Wei Lun comes off as one-dimensional in his brash, immature pursuit of Ling, yet their illicit relationship is portrayed in an anti-sensationalist light, blurring the lines between maternal and romantic love. Read full review

G. Allen Johnson

Apr 28, 2021

As a woman struggling to define her own narrative, Yeo delivers a layered, heartbreaking performance. But she is ultimately ill-served by both the inertness of the story and Chen’s awkward approach to the material in the final half-hour (no spoilers here). Read full review

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risonyeong

Aug 13, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. A FIRST TIME I AM GIVING '8' FOR ANY MOVIE!
ya, because it's my own countryman! but being such a skeptic, i seldom even watch local movies.
we loved ilo ilo so when this was on wet season ( by sudden discovery ) we were elated. anthony chen is a real master in movie making. each shot tells a thousand words. no melodrama. more like singaporean áng lee. ( btw i am really disappointed in ang lee, just watch Gemini man and u will know why).
yeo yann yann at last got her well deserving golden horse. this is a tough feat in asia coz we had to compete with the much more sophisticated taiwanese and hongkong powerhouse actors.
we loved all the parallism and nuances. why wet season? so many meaning to it. yann's expression of disgust and unrequited pleasure when she was raped, was so complicated to act. especially by a hunky minor. it must also be very difficult for the young boy to do the sex scene....
we can't imagine what the director must have gone thro to do the scene.
very hard show to watch but truly believable and in the end we emphatised. Masterful!!!!… Expand

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