And as for this list-its only qualifier is that these are the critically acclaimed, historically important, and pivotal films that a person who cares about film (and, in doing so, often cares about humanity in general) should really get to know. Sandi Tan’s Shirkers is one of those films that defies categorization: a coming-of-age story, a mystery, possibly the pieced-together remnants of a lost work of art.
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On a more basic level, the documentary tells the story of a teenage Sandi and her two friends, who set out to make “Singapore’s first indie film” in the early ’90s with an American film teacher, Georges, who would prove himself to be creepy for reasons beyond his eagerness to devote his free time to hanging around with a bunch of precocious and self-serious kids.
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The film doesn’t devolve into the kind of icky tale you might suspect, however, instead becoming a complicated and entertaining meditation on originality, punctuated with footage from the film that the teenagers made. The story of the disappearance and recovery of that footage provides a whodunit tension to the film, while the footage itself-super-saturated in color, influenced by the offbeat indie films of the late ’80s and early ’90s-offers evidence of the originality behind the whole venture. Peck brings his subject back to life in archival footage and in readings of his work and correspondence by the actor Samuel L. “The idea was, how do I come up with the ultimate Baldwin?” the director told Vogue’s Julia Felsenthal in 2016.