Ilo Ilo

Ilo Ilo
Theatrical poster with the Simplified Chinese title in calligraphic and the English title. Terry (Angeli Bayani) and Jiale (Koh Jia Ler) look at a view of a city in the rooftop of an apartment.
Film poster
Traditional Chinese爸媽不在家
Simplified Chinese爸妈不在家
Literal meaningDad and Mom Are Not Home
Hanyu PinyinBàmā bù zàijiā
Hokkien POJPē-má put chāi-ke
Directed byAnthony Chen
Written byAnthony Chen
Produced by
  • Ang Hwee Sim
  • Anthony Chen
  • Wahyuni A. Hadi
Starring
CinematographyBenoit Soler
Edited by
  • Hoping Chen
  • Joanne Cheong
Production
companies
Distributed byGolden Village Pictures
Release dates
  • May 19, 2013 (2013-05-19) (Cannes)
  • August 29, 2013 (2013-08-29) (Singapore)
Running time
99 minutes
CountrySingapore
LanguagesSingapore Hokkien
English
Tagalog
Hiligaynon
Mandarin
BudgetS$700,000[1]
Box officeSingapore (S$1.2 million)

Ilo Ilo (Chinese: 爸妈不在家; pinyin: Bà mā bù zàijiā; lit. 'Dad and Mom Are Not Home'[2]) is a 2013 Singaporean drama film. The debut feature of director Anthony Chen, the film features an international cast, including Singaporean actor Chen Tianwen, Malaysian actress Yeo Yann Yann, Filipino actress Angeli Bayani, and debut of child actor Koh Jia Ler.[3]

Ilo Ilo premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival as part of the Directors' Fortnight on 19 May 2013.[4] At the festival, the film was awarded the Caméra d'Or award, thus becoming the first Singaporean feature film to win an award at the Cannes Film Festival.[5] The film was selected as the Singaporean entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards but was not nominated.[6]

Plot

In Singapore during the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the Lim family welcomes their domestic helper Teresa (colloquially Terry). Terry is an overseas Filipino Worker who has come to support her infant son. The father, Teck, works in sales for a glass company; the pregnant mother, Hwee Leng, works as a secretary in a downsizing shipping company; and the ten-year-old son, Jiale, is a troubled delinquent. Jiale and Terry exhibit a troubled relationship at first. One day, Jiale climbs over the school fence at dismissal time just to avoid his maid, who comes every day to fetch him.

When Teck loses his sales job, he conceals it from his wife. He accepts a temporary job as a security guard monitoring an egg farm, but was quickly fired for breaking several crates while chasing a robber. As he continues to lose money in the stock market, he acknowledges their losses to his wife, who lambastes him. Terry also finds a side job at Lucky Plaza as a hairstylist, which she keeps a secret from her employers. Meanwhile, Jiale and Terry begin to kindle a relationship, which sparks his mother's jealousy and feelings of emotional neglect by her son. Hwee Leng attends a motivational seminar and is convinced by the optimistic words of the speaker to purchase his merchandise; he turns out to be a fraud.

Jiale is enthusiastic in his collection of past-winning lottery numbers, which he catalogues in his schoolbook. One day, after being taunted by another boy that Terry only loves him as part of her job, he pushes the boy against a bathroom wall, hospitalizing him. Threatened with expulsion and the school's administration unable to contact his parents, Terry arrives to plead for mercy on his behalf. Hwee Leng shows up, reminding Terry that she is Jiale's mother. Later, Jiale is caned in front of the school assembly.

After the family car is sold for scrap and Teck is fired from his job for committing a mistake, the Lim family acknowledge they can no longer afford to keep Terry employed. Desperate to keep her, Jiale uses his savings to purchase lottery tickets but loses. He becomes despondent and cuts a lock of Terry's hair during a tense farewell. Holding onto her cassette player, Jiale listens to Terry's favorite song, "Kahapon at Pag-ibig"[a] by Asin, with his father in the hospital as Hwee Leng gives birth to a baby girl.

Cast

Production

Development

Ilo Ilo was directed and written by Anthony Chen.[7] Chen based the film on his personal experiences, particularly his family's Filipino maid referred to as "Terry". He recalled that his family employed "Terry" from 1988, when he was aged four, to 1997, when he was aged twelve.[8] Chen, who finished his master's degree at the National Film and Television School, decided to create his first feature film and returned to Singapore to "make something personal".[9] While ideating his feature film, he "had these sudden memories of childhood recurring"[10] and wanted to rediscover the emotion he felt in his farewell to "Terry".[11] "Terry" returned to Iloilo, a province in the Philippines, in 1997 during the 1997 Asian financial crisis.[12]

Scriptwriting began on June 2010[13] and took two to three years.[10][14] Chen initially wrote Ilo as an autobiographical film, but decided not to after he "became more objective about the material".[15] He revised an initial draft that included Chen's two younger brothers after he "[focused] on the emotions and the characters". The personalities of Chen and the character Jiale contrasted; Chen described that he was "prim and proper [and] probably the one being bullied" in his childhood.[12] One scene in the film that Chen based on his experience was the maid's slaughter of Jiale's pet chickens.[16]

Iloilo was the first word Chen wrote while writing for the film, as he recalled that the maid came from Iloilo.[15] He considered 25 titles for the film at first before choosing Ilo Ilo.[17] Chen based the Chinese title on children whose parents both work most of the time.[11] Chen searched for any old Filipino song to use in the closing credits by searching at iTunes, and coincidentally found "Kahapon at Pag-ibig" by Asin. When the production staff inquired the song's rights to singer Lolita Carbon, she requested a DVD copy of the film. Chen deliberately avoided showing subtitles for the credits song.[17]

Ang Hwee Sim, Anthony Chen, and Wahyuni A. Hadi produced the film.[18] The film's budget is estimated to be around S$500,000,[b] and was partially funded by Ngee Ann Polytechnic for S$200,000 and the Singapore Film Commission's New Feature Film Fund.[20][21][22]

Pre-production and filming

A cheap hotel room served as the audition space for around 30 to 40 women were auditioned for the role of Terry, the Filipino maid.[13] Angeli Bayani, who received the role of Terry, was the last auditionee and arrived from a threatre show.[23] Yeo Yann Yann, who would play as Jiale's mother, had previously worked with Chen in his 2007 short film Ah Ma. Chen had to rewrite the script after Yeo informed him of her pregnancy in December 2011. He also filmed the delivery of Yeo's daughter via a caesarian section for the concluding scene, as the hospital restricted the operating room from relatives.[24] The production staff took ten months to find an actor for Jiale's role. Among 2,000 child auditionees from at least 20 schools, the 150 children selected to be screened in acting workshops for six months was a friend of Koh Jia Ler. Koh, who was rejected for additional screening, received the role after discreetly asking a casting assistant.[24]

Filming took place for 27 days from May to June 2012.[25] Filming locations include a five-room flat in Tampines,[26] as well as Jurong and other housing estates.[27] A key sequence where Jiale shows Terry a city skyline, which was used for the film poster, was filmed on a Housing and Development Board (HDB) block at Teban Gardens without permission. Requests to permit filming at building rooftops were rejected by the town council and government agencies, and the crew accidentally found access to the roof.[28][29] The production staff checked around 500 HDB flats within one month to find a primary filming location.[26] Chen wanted a five-room flat located on the second or third floor with uncoloured tiles and door grills "with oval-ish or rounded rectangles", according to a production assistant.[30]: 3  A handheld camera was used for filming.[24] Koh was caned in two takes with protective pads while shooting a scene.[13][30]: 1 

Release

Production of the film was first announced in July 2012 for a 2013 release,[25] which was then specified in January 2013 to be at the third quarter of that year.[31] In May, Ilo Ilo was announced for a Singapore release at August 2013 with Golden Village as the distributor.[32] Ilo Ilo premiered on 19 May 2013 in the Director's Fortnight, a parallel section of the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.[33][34] Power outages occassionally interrupted the screening; the audience continued singing in a scene where characters sing "Happy Birthday". The film received a 15-minute standing ovation.[35]

The first public screening in Singapore was held on 21 August at Golden Village VivoCity for selected The Straits Times readers,[36] followed by the gala premiere on 24 August at Marina Bay Sands attended by President of Singapore Tony Tan.[8][24] The film was theatrically released in Singapore on 29 August.[24] The Philippine premiere, attended by Chen and Bayani, was held at Robinsons Galleria on November 13.[13] The film premiered in Iloilo on 1 December.[14] The Singapore Tourism Board held a pre-screening at Resorts World Manila the following day, and the film was theatrically released in the Philippines on 4 December.[10][14]

Chen had no information on Aunt Terry throughout production, except for her first name and two photographs of her. After the film won the Camera d'Or, Philippine media agencies launched a campaign to search for her and found She was found two weeks later.[12][37] The maid is Teresita Sajonia, who has been in San Miguel, Iloilo, since the Chen's employment.[16][10] Teresita joined the 24 August screening in Singapore through a flight sponsored by Cebu Pacific.[16] She also joined the premiere in Iloilo and the 2 December pre-screening.[14][17]

Two film posters were prepared. One poster featured Jia Ler and Bayani looking over a landscape, and another for the Singaporean release featured the lead characters's faces placed on cartoon bodies and a drawing of a HDB building.[38] Ilo Ilo was released on DVD around the 2014 Chinese New Year.[19][39]

Reception

Box office

Ilo Ilo earned S$210,000 in its opening weekend.[40] By 18 September, it earned around S$680,000.[41] Theatrical release concluded ten weeks after the opening with a box office of around S$900,000. Golden Village re-released Ilo Ilo on 21 November to commemorate the film's nominations at the 50th Golden Horse Awards on 23 November.[42] The re-run continued until Decemher 11.[43] The film earned more than S$2.8 million in the international and local box office by 1 January 2013,[44] and around S$1.23 million in Singapore by 2013.[45][46]

Critical reception

Ilo Ilo generally generally received positive reception. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 100% of 45 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 7.8/10/10. The website's consensus reads: "Quietly compassionate and rich in detail, Ilo Ilo is a strikingly mature debut from writer-director Anthony Chen."[47] Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned the film a score of 85 out of 100, based on 12 critics, indicating "universal acclaim".[48] Film critic Kenneth Turan of the Los Angeles Times opined that Chen's first film, which employs a neo-realistic style, "quietly demonstrates that in the right hands even the familiar stuff of everyday life can move us deeply".[49]

Most reviewers praised the performances of the lead cast and the film's cinematography.[50][51] For instance, Variety's Maggie Lee applauded Bayani's performance in the film's bittersweet ending and as a dignified and pragmatic Terry; she also felt that Yeo's clumsy motion communicate her character's anxieties. The cinematography de-emphasizes the period setting and highlights the universality of the family's experiences through "deceptively plain [...] and faceless neighborhoods", according to Lee.[51] For The Washington Post's Mark Jenkins, the film's "crowded compositions" express the film's intimacy and the "sense of life" in the city-state of Singapore.[52] The Straits Times's John Lui also wrote that the film does not feel claustrophobic despite mostly being filmed in a housing flat.[53] Meanwhile, Sight and Sound's Tony Rayns called Ilo Ilo "aesthetically conservative".[54] Some critics noticed the film's use of "small but noticeable historical touches"[55] such as period-specific appliances and fashion, pagers, and a Tamagotchi.[50]

Several reviewers appreciated the film's avoidance of melodrama.[50] Screen Daily's Tom Grierson argued that the film's setting of Singapore during the 1997 financial crisis and its inclusion of characters that are "trying to keep their heads afloat" amid uncertainties elevated the film from standard local dramas. For them, a conventional plot would have had Terry "teach inspirational life lessons" and change the family.[56] Philippine Entertainment Portal's Mari-An Santos described Ilo Ilo as a "nostalgic yet fully-informed portrayal of life with a nanny". They also argued that it balances the perspectives of the Singaporean family and the Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW).[50] Ilo Ilo also humanizes Terry and the Lim family, which resemble the two sides of an economic divide, according to Lui.[53] Mikhail Lecaros of GMA News Online emphasized that the film delivers a "refreshing honest take" on the experiences of OFWs and presents Singaporean middle class lifestyle without forms of "sledgehammer commentary" used in Singaporean films similar to Money No Enough (1998); for them, the film "distills complex familial and societal issues into a straightforward, often funny, narrative".[57] Several reviewers also pointed out elements of humor; Grierson called the film a comedy-drama.[56] Moreover, Lui opined that local habits are depicted with comedy, as shown in scenes of enthusiasm on lottery or of a father comfortably wearing underwear at home. They also observed that some critics at early screenings said that Ilo Ilo"lacks narrative urgency".[53]

Several critics discussed the characters' dynamics and the universality of the film's themes.[56] Today's Martin Mayo felt that the script "fully fleshed out" the four protagonist and gave them "quirks that make them just that more memorable".[58] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw described Jiale's relationship with Terry, who gradually behaves as his mother, as "partly a Stockholm syndrome symptom [and] a genuine friendship".[59] Film critic Stephen Holden also felt that the film did not sentimentalize this relationship and instead drew audiences to empathize with its four protagonists.[60] The issues discussed in Ilo Ilo apply to contexts outside its setting, according to some reviewers.[56][60] South China Morning Post's Yvonne Teh added that the film connects to a broad audience despite being grounded in Singaporean culture, and described the film as a Singaporean version of Hong Kong film A Simple Life.[55] Lee identified child-rearing as a theme through the use of pet chickens. They also opined that the impact of the financial crisis on the family looms further in the second half, which the Jiale and Terry relationship is smoothly incorporated into.[51] Jenkins also considered money as instrumental to the film's narrative.[52] In a critical review, Sight and Sound's Tony Rayns argued that Ilo Ilo failed to extend its close observation of the family's economic and parenting crisis into analysis. They questioned the necessity of two scenes in which Terry calls home on a public telephone, which only compare Terry's life with the Lim family and do not further her relationship with Jiale. The conflict between Hwee Leng and Terry in the scene of Jiale's expulsion, which cuts into a shot of Terry "alone and deflated", also could have been more "nuanced and sustained".[54]

Accolades

The film was later awarded the Camera d'Or award, an award which recognizes the best debut feature film in the competition.[5] It received six nominations at the Golden Horse Film Festival and Awards[61] and won four: Best Film, Best New Director, Best Original Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actress for Yeo Yann Yann.[62]

Film

Individual

  • Sep 2013, Best Actor (Koh Jia Ler), 9th Eurasia Film Festival, (Almaty, Kazakhstan)
  • Oct 2013, Best Actress (Yeo Yann Yann), 15th Mumbai International Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
  • Oct 2013, Best Director (Anthony Chen), 15th Mumbai International Film Festival (Mumbai, India)
  • Nov 2013, Best Supporting Actress (Yeo Yann Yann), 50th Golden Horse Awards (Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Nov 2013, Best New Director (Anthony Chen), 50th Golden Horse Awards (Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Nov 2013, Best Original Screenplay (Anthony Chen), 50th Golden Horse Awards (Taipei, Taiwan)
  • Dec 2013, Best Director (Anthony Chen), 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards (Brisbane, Australia)
  • Dec 2013, Best Supporting Actress (Yeo Yann Yann), Asia-Pacific Film Festival (Macau)
  • Dec 2013, Best Actress (Yeo Yann Yann), Muhr AsiaAfrica Feature section, Dubai Film Festival (Dubai, UAE)

See also

Notes

  1. ↑ lit. 'Yesterday and love'
  2. ↑ Other sources claim that the budget was around S$700,000.[7][19]

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