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Rotterdam Political Drama ‘Small Hours of the Night’ Examines Harshness, Absurdity of Singapore Legal System
Daniel Hui's rare Singaporean political drama 'Small Hours of the Night' probes the harshness and absurdity of Singapore's criminal justice system.
And with just a telephone, an ashtray, a tape recorder, a rough corner of the wall in the film’s opening scenes, the treatment of Hui’s subject matter may be minimalist, but it is also quietly brutal. The main character, who is an amalgam of various real-life defendants from Singapore’s history, becomes a subject beneath the Law, standing for all those whose fates were at the mercy of the courts,” say Rotterdam’s programmers in their notes. Recent editing efforts include Yeo Siew Hua’s Locarno Golden Leopard-winning “A Land Imagined” and “Last Shadow at First Light,” the acclaimed feature debut by Nicole Midori-Woodford.
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