2017 · drama · comedy · singaporean
Pop Aye
Directed by Kirsten Tan1h 44m2017
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant on a journey across Thailand in search of the farm where they grew up together.
Our read: Pop Aye (2017) reads as a warm, measured, grounded drama · comedy · singaporean entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, measured, gentle drama / comedy, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- warm
- measured
- gentle
- tender
- intimate
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