Stranger Eyes
Directed by
Yeo Siew Hua
Library Pricing:
DVD $150.00
Blu-ray $150.00
PPR $350.00
DRL $499.00
PPR+DRL $599.00
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After the unexplained disappearance of their baby daughter, a young couple receives strange videos and realizes someone has been filming their daily life, even in their most intimate moments. The police set up surveillance to arrest the voyeur they suspect of the kidnapping. But the family starts to crumble as secrets unveil under the scrutiny of eyes watching them from all sides.
Cast
- Lee Kang-Sheng
- Wu Chien-ho
- Anicca Panna
- Vera Chen
- Pete Teo
- "What begins as a crime thriller ends as a transfixing meditation on our personal need for recognition and the difficulty of finding this for ourselves or providing that for others."
- "It’s a testament to the tremendous subtlety of Lee’s acting that it only becomes obvious in retrospect how much of Stranger Eyes is about him, and how much its world bends and refracts around his presence. "
- "Glisteningly atmospheric and elegantly non-linear.... [T]he grave, sorrowful reserve of Lee’s presence gives the film a well of emotion beneath its sharp narrative design, shimmery-cool cinematography and timely technophobia."
- "[A]n engrossing watch that becomes more intriguing as the story unfolds, unveiling hidden facets of the central characters that add great depth to Hua’s film."
- "[I]t’s never less than intriguing...."
- "The discordant strangeness [of the film is] its allure."
- "[A]n excellent crime thriller...."
- "Stranger Eyes can sit comfortably alongside such classic voyeuristic thrillers as Rear Window, Blow Up and The Conversation...."
- "Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua's film offers unexpected rewards."
- "With Stranger Eyes, ascendant Singaporean filmmaker Yeo Siew Hua transmogrifies what looks at first like a creepy crime thriller into something much more tricksy, potent and ultimately puzzling, yet still rooted in recognizable human fragility."
- "Stranger Eyes is a chilling mystery film about social isolation in the modern day that becomes increasingly unpredictable and enthralling."
- "[I]ts narrative point of view rewardingly shifts across different modes of watching and spying on others, from mass surveillance, through amateur sleuthing, to disturbing voyeurism."
- "Co-writer/director Yeo has hit a nerve for all of us in today’s world.... It’s a warning embedded in a suspenseful film."
- "Stranger Eyes belongs to Lee. Whether or not Yeo wrote it with him in mind, I can’t think of a better performer to flesh out the chasm that powers the film: between different ways of looking, between fears as old as time itself and the state-of-the-art technology used to bring them to light."
- "A satisfyingly slow-build film about loss, patience and being watched that ends with a highly emotional payoff."
- "Yeo Siew Hua asks intelligent questions about the effect of surveillance on the psyche in a brilliantly-cast mystery about a child’s disappearance."
Gallery
Awards & Recognition
Winner
Silver Spike - Best Film
Valladolid Int'l. Film Festival
Silver Spike - Best Film
Valladolid Int'l. Film Festival
Winner
Best Original Film Score
Golden Horse Film Festival
Best Original Film Score
Golden Horse Film Festival
Nominated
Golden Lion
Venice Film Festival
Golden Lion
Venice Film Festival
Nominated
Grand Prize
Tokyo FILMeX
Grand Prize
Tokyo FILMeX
Nominated
Best Cinematography
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Best Cinematography
Asia Pacific Screen Awards
Nominated
5 Awards inc. Best Picture, Director, Actor
Golden Horse Film Festival
5 Awards inc. Best Picture, Director, Actor
Golden Horse Film Festival
Official Selection
New York Film Festival
New York Film Festival
Official Selection
BFI London Film Festival
BFI London Film Festival
Official Selection
Stockholm Int'l. Film Festival
Stockholm Int'l. Film Festival
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