Shirkers

Name: Shirkers
Genre: Documentary
Released: October 26, 2018
Duration: 97 min
Rating: 88
Cast: Ben Harrison, Georges Cardona, Grace Dane Mazur, Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah

2018

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Netflix | Release Date (Streaming): October 26, 2018 | Not Rated

Starring: Ben Harrison, Georges Cardona, Grace Dane Mazur, Jasmine Kin Kia Ng, Philip Cheah, Sandi Tan, Sophia Siddique Harvey, Stephen Tyler

Summary: In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called Shirkers-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans areIn 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called Shirkers-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are recovered in New Orleans, sending Sandi-now a novelist in Los Angeles-on a new personal odyssey across two continents and many media: 16mm, digital, Hi8, Super8, slides, animation and handwritten letters. … Expand

Director: Sandi Tan

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 97 min

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Dominick Suzanne-Mayer

Oct 29, 2018

It’s about how reality invades our dreams, and how the people we trust teach us to be less trusting as we get older. Tan plays these themes out with a rare emotional honesty, never allowing the fact that it’s a deeply personal work to prevent her from indicting herself alongside any of the other key players involved. Read full review

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Justin Chang

Oct 25, 2018

A knotty detective yarn, a funny valentine to Singapore and one of the year’s most ardent expressions of movie love, it tells a story of cinematic theft, and in the process, becomes an entrancing feat of cinematic reclamation. Read full review

April Wolfe

Oct 25, 2018

Like another breakout independent film this year, “The Tale,” Tan’s documentary attempts to portray her own narrative with objectivity and distance, but she discovers along the way that such a thing may not be possible, that memories will wait years or decades to snag you in their truths. Read full review

Christopher Gray

Oct 21, 2018

Sandi Tan's view of what the original Shirkers represented, and what her new film should be, proves surprisingly expansive. Read full review

IndieWire Eric Kohn

Shirkers becomes a paean to the pivotal moment when the idealism of young adulthood faces a harsh reality check. Read full review

Tomris Laffly

Oct 25, 2018

Shirkers is at its most gripping when it doesn’t overestimate Cardona’s narrative worth—the multifaceted women at the documentary’s heart are far more appealing. Read full review

Fionnuala Halligan

As the story of the mysterious Cordona plays out, the persuasive personalities of the three women both then and now strike a chord. Read full review

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ladyalymarie

Dec 26, 2018

From a documentary feature turn thriller, this craft from Sandi Tan is something to behold. **from me who rarely watches a docu.

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mainstreamkid

Feb 7, 2019

Shirkers is, perhaps, just as different and unique as the unfinished film it talks about and the venturesome lives that partook in its devolopment.

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