Love Conquers All

"An eerily beautiful, unforgettably unsettling post-feminist drama from Malaysia's most promising young director."
-Shelly Kraicer, editor of Chinese Cinema Digest

"A special gaze on an ordinary love story."
-Kim ji Seouk

"From the beginning (a strange scene involving a seemingly incapacitated passenger on the bus) to the end (which confirms the title in all its ambiguity), director Tan Chui Mui observes her people and their world with calm directness. She has the gift of creating spare, relaxed compositions that evoke what lies outside the frame, behind the faces. Tan is confident enough to end Love Conquers All (her first feature) with many questions still open - questions not just about the characters' fates but about their way of life, their identities as men and women, and the nature of love. No doubt her future work will further probe such questions."
- Chris Fujiwara

"Isn't there a secret paradox or a dilemma in the title of the film — Love Conquers All? The classical literary phrase (from Virgil), in the context of the film, gets quite a different meaning. For Ah Ping, the protagonist of Love Conquers All, love does not have the same meaning that the classic writer meant, but is just an attempt to adapt to the traumatic reality, to take life as it is, and to make it less painful. It is quite interesting that Ah Ping's boyfriend exposes his cards at the very beginning, setting forth the most probable, often performed, and desperate development of her love story, not leaving room for any illusion. Like many other pretty girls, she will become a street prostitute, to earn money for her boyfriend. She does not have any other way than accepting the given script. Of course, theoretically, there is always some other choice — "to jump," which is several times articulated by her boyfriend. But we understand that she will never jump."
-Susanna Harutyunyan

Get Love conquers all DVD here!