Wet Season

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Wet Season

2021

1h 43m

Drama

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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 brings this simmering Singapore-set drama to boiling point, whilst using an associative and poetic editing rhythm, repeating colors and shapes to highlight the small parallels that link people, and reveal the profound in lovely and subtle ways. With uniformly sensitive performances from the returning cast of Ilo Ilo, Chen's Wet Season is the classy and well-measured teacher-student drama that will get you weeping this autumn.

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Wet Season uses one woman's painful emergence into self-determination to critically -- and engrossingly -- examine the balance of power in relationships.

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G. Allen Johnson

San Francisco Chronicle

04/30/2021

2/4

Ling is a perpetual victim. And Chen doesn't give her many interesting options.

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Katie Walsh

Los Angeles Times

04/29/2021

a portrait of a repressed and oppressed woman learning to chip away at her invisible confines, and within that is a story of generations; the end of life and the beginning of life, and the often messy complexities of everything that happens in between.

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Randy Myers

San Jose Mercury News

04/29/2021

3.5/4

Chen's moody-looking feature, set during the monsoon season, aches with repression. It's also as outraged as "Promising Young Woman" over how men mistreat women.

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Jennie Kermode

Eye for Film

06/03/2021

4.5/5

Wet Season is a quietly troubling, beautifully composed piece of work.

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Soham Gadre

Film Inquiry

05/14/2021

In the film's approach to try depicting its scandalous central relationship as naturally occurring as possible, Wet Season sacrifices narrative or emotional thrust.

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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 brings this simmering Singapore-set drama to boiling point, whilst using an associative and poetic editing rhythm, repeating colors and shapes to highlight the small parallels that link people, and reveal the profound in lovely and subtle ways. With uniformly sensitive performances from the returning cast of Ilo Ilo, Chen's Wet Season is the classy and well-measured teacher-student drama that will get you weeping this autumn.

Director: Anthony Chen
Producer: Anthony Chen
Distributor: Strand Releasing
Production Co: Rediance, giraffe pictures
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Chinese
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 23, 2021, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): May 3, 2021
Runtime: 1h 43m