Edmund Yeo and Vivian Sung Chase Malaysia’s Buried Past in Toronto Title ‘The Age of Goodbyes’: ‘Ordinary People Living Inside History’

By Naman Ramachandran

Naman Ramachandran

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“The Age of Goodbyes” begins, in more ways than one, with a curse.

In Li Zi Shu’s sprawling Malaysian Chinese novel, a family is said to be marked by early death; in Edmund Yeo‘s screen adaptation, in the Special Presentations section of the Toronto Film Festival, that curse becomes the hinge on which five decades of Malaysian history swing, carried by a woman named Du Li An and the two men, one thought dead, who share the same face.

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