| FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 2019 | THE STRAITS TIMES | happenings life D7

John Lui Film Correspondent and Boon Chan Media Correspondent recommend

Picks 27TH ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL A middle-aged man who is living a quiet life with his wife and two children receives an innocuous piece of mail from the government. Film Inside is information that shatters his image of his wife, leaving him consumed with jealousy and yearning for answers. The mystery drama Echo (2018, M18, 98 minutes) asks the question: How much do we really know about our partners? Echo (which stars Yael Abecassis, below) is part of the Israel Film Festival, one of ’s longest-running. The festival returns with six new feature films and free screenings of older works at Lasalle College of the Arts and the National University of Singapore. WHERE: FilmGarde Bugis+, Level 5, 201 Victoria Street MRT: Bugis WHEN: From Thursday to Sept 1, various times ADMISSION: $13 INFO: fgcineplex.com.sg

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Bodies At Rest stars (from left) Richie Jen, Yang Zi, Feng Jiayi, Ma Shuliang, Nick Cheung and Carlos Chan. PHOTOS: GOLDEN VILLAGE PICTURES, ISRAEL FILM FESTIVAL, THE WALT DISNEY COMPANY

BODIES AT REST (NC16) 93 minutes/ READY OR NOT (M18) 96 minutes/ On a stormy Christmas Eve in Hong Kong, three masked men (including In a flashback scene, a terrified man is chased through Richie Jen in a Santa mask) break into a mansion before he is shot full of arrows by men and a mortuary and demand that women in masks and formal dress. pathologist Nick (Nick Cheung) and In the present day, Grace (Samara Weaving, left) and his assistant (Yang Zi) retrieve a Alex (Mark O’Brien) are getting married in the home of bullet from a dead woman’s body. his wealthy but eccentric family, who insist that the Nick tries to outwit the vicious thugs, bride take part in a midnight ritual of picking a game in who have no qualms about killing in which the entire clan can participate. order to get what they want. The winning ingredient in this horror-comedy is tone. In this fun, inventive thriller, veteran It walks the line between cartoonish mayhem and Hong Kong actor Cheung is a solid serious stakes with easy grace, with the goal of telling a presence while Taiwanese story about what the 1 per cent really think of the poor. singer-actor Jen plays valiantly Weaving’s winning performance as the chatty but against type as a villain. level-headed bride, who learns that she is marrying into a murder-happy version of the Addams family, is a Boon Chan major plus.

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