KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 13 — Malaysian director Edmund Yeo brings a beautiful pathos to his adaptation of Li Zi Shu's acclaimed The Age of Goodbyes.
Li herself was unsure about her book's adaptability as it spins from one era to the next, back and forth, while somehow also weaving in two sets of twins, born in different eras with almost matching fates.
But it is not the twins that form the centrepiece here; instead it is Taiwanese actress Vivian Sung who carries the weight of the film on her very elegant shoulders.
Sung spent time in Malaysia so she could master a passable local accent in the various Chinese languages she had to speak in the film.
