Original title: 爱情征服一切
Year: 2006
Director: Tan Chui Mui
Runtime: 90 minutes
Country: Malaysia
Language: Mandarin, Cantonese, Malay with English subtitles
Rating: NC16

Awards

TIGER AWARD
Rotterdam International Film Festival 2007

SWISS OKIOCRÉDIT AWARD
Fribourg International Film Festival 2007

WINNER GRAND PRIZE CITY OF LISBON
Indie Lisboa International Independent Film Festival 2007

FIPRESCI PRIZE, NEW CURRENTS AWARD
Pusan International Film Festival 2006

GOLDEN DIGITAL AWARD
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2007

Synopsis

Wide-eyed country girl Ping leaves her hometown in Penang to work at her aunt’s food stall in Kuala Lumpur, forming a sisterly bond with her school-going cousin, Mei. As Mei eagerly awaits letters from a “Mysterious Man”, Ping grows fond of a bad boy of her own. Between midnight joyrides, pasar malam trips, and payphone calls to her long-distance partner, she falls into the shady world of her new lover, John. But when he suddenly goes missing, Ping finds herself slipping – knowingly perhaps – into a pattern of exploitation predetermined by him.

Tan Chui Mui’s debut feature puts an ironic spin on the old cliche of all-conquering romantic love in chronicling a young woman’s journey towards a knowledge of good and evil. Juxtaposing the noise and glow of street eateries against the quiet of the city’s rural outskirts, Love Conquers All captures a stylishly realist portrait of life in Malaysia in the ’00s.

This film is part of the programme Y2K Dreamz. The full programme for Y2K DreamZ can be found here.

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