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Liew Seng Tat's "Flower in the Pocket" was awarded with a special Jury Prize (Lotus du Jury) at the 10th Deauville Asian Film Festival in France, which was held from the 12th to the 17th of March this year. Coincidentally, French director Patrice Chereau and other jury members have also decided to give Aditya Assarat's "A Wonderful Town" the Jury Prize, making it the third award which the Thai filmmaker is sharing with Malaysia's Seng Tat.

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By Andronika Martonova

How can we define the cinema of James Lee? Firstly his style, strongly exhibited in the love trilogy (or as the Betrayal Trilogy as it is sometimes called), is believed to be emblematic of the Malaysian New Wave. His themes are always explored through a love triangle. It is interesting that he explores this theme even in the absence of a physically present third character, as in Before We Fall in Love Again. Through his film language, Lee constructs an invisible presence of the other.

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IFFR 2008: Interview with "Flower in the pocket" writer / director LIEW SENG TAT

Missing "Flower in the Pocket" has been my biggest regret at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, especially since Peter van der Lugt (GhibliWorld.com) and I kept running into writer/director Liew Seng Tat. We even got a chance to interview him!

Now I would have loved to participate in interviewing Liew Seng Tat, but fate had its way of making me miss every single screening of "Flower in the Pocket" prior to the meeting.
And I didn't want to bother the man with made-up questions while I hadn't even seen his film (I did stick around to take the pictures though...)

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