{"id":919,"date":"2014-07-28T21:22:30","date_gmt":"2014-07-28T21:22:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/?p=919"},"modified":"2015-08-31T13:36:49","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T13:36:49","slug":"ilo-ilo-thursday-16-october-8pm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/2014\/07\/ilo-ilo-thursday-16-october-8pm\/","title":{"rendered":"ILO ILO &#8211; Thursday 16 October, 8pm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Set during the 1990s financial meltdown in Singapore,\u00a0Ilo Ilo\u00a0chronicles what seems like a year in the lives of a family of three and their newly employed Filipino maid, examining in particular the bond she develops with their already unruly son and the further strain her presence as a stranger puts on the family\u2019s already strained ties.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Director: Anthony Chen.\u00a0 Singapore, 2013.\u00a0 Language: Mandarin.\u00a0 99 minutes.\u00a0 Cert: 12A.<\/p>\n<p><em>Ilo Ilo\u00a0is filled with sweetness, humour\u00a0and humanity: so assured and accomplished that it&#8217;s hard to believe this is a first feature. What an impressive debut from 30-year-old Singaporean writer-director Anthony Chen, who graduated four years ago from Britain&#8217;s National Film and Television School. In\u00a0its gentleness, its shrewd psychological insight and unforced accumulation of detail, his film is something to be compared with the work of Taiwanese director Edward Yang.<\/em>\u00a0&#8211; The Guardian ****<\/p>\n<p>Starring: Angeli Bayani, Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwen, Koh Jia Ler<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BkNHIdEou7o?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Set during the 1990s financial meltdown in Singapore,\u00a0Ilo Ilo\u00a0chronicles what seems like a year in the lives of a family of three and their newly employed Filipino maid, examining in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":920,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/919\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corkcineclub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}