FILM
GOURMET BABY
(2001, color, S16mm, 15 mins)
“How beautiful and original… What a delightful and agonizing arc! The Chekhov of Singapore!!”– Guy Maddin
An idiosyncratic inter-generational relationship, played out across the dining table.
Starring Singapore’s leading actor Lim Kay Tong as the lonesome man who wants his young niece to taste the world. Premiered at the NEW YORK FILM FESTIVAL.
Played at CLERMONT-FERRAND, GRANADA, LOS ANGELES plus over 30 other film festivals, including the 2004 SLOW FOOD FILM FESTIVAL in Bra, Italy, where legendary grouch Les Blank called it, “very touching, on several different levels.”
Included in this compilation from the Asian Film Archive:
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The original score was created by John Sharpley, composer-in-residence of the Singapore Symphony Orchestra.
Acquired by RAI-SAT for broadcast across Italy and AZN for broadcast in the USA.
SALES AGENT: Britshorts/Shorts International, London.
“…Gourmet Baby underlines the complexity of physical appetitie for various kinds of perfection — and the impossibility and perhaps, immorality, of realizing such an ideal.” – Kathleen Murphy, Women in Cinema Film Festival (Seattle)
