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production
notes
Regie
Glen Goei
Singapore
1998
95 min
Feature 35 mm
Chinese/English
English subtitles
After
studying Drama in London, Goei got the lead role opposite Anthony
Hopkins in the 1989 West End staging of the Tony Award winning M.
Butterfly. He worked as a producer and went on to study film at
New York Unversity. Forever Fever is his first feature film as a
director.
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Programme:
Asian Expression
This film from Singapore is a Saturday Night Fever meets Purple Rose
of Cairo meets Bruce Lee.
Ah
Hock - supermarket assistant cum Bruce Lee- wannabe - wants to buy
a new beefy-looking motorbike. He decides to take a shot at the
$5000 grand prize at the Galaxy Disco dance competition and signs
up with childhood sweetheart Mei for dance classes. But instead
of buying the motorbike, Ah Hock finds himself dancing for the sex
change surgery of his rival - his parent's favourite son - his brother
Lesley, who gave up a brilliant doctor's career to become her own
woman.
The
film attempts to frame the John Travolta classic dance flick in
a Singaporean context , resulting in a rather enjoyable nostalgic
recapturing of the 70s' disco era.
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