‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: Ostensibly A Missing-Child Thriller, Yeo Siew Hua’s Alluring Film Takes A Strange Turn — Venice Film Festival
deadline.comFull of false leads and meandering shifts of focus, Singaporean director Yeo Siew Hua’s story of a missing child initially appears to be a straight-up thriller.
Here is a young couple with their child Little Bo, being filmed in the park by Bo’s overbearing grandmother. Here they are at home, miserable shells of their former selves, watching all the home movies they can find in the hope of finding a hint of what might have happened to Little Bo, who has now been missing for three months.
Her father Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) comes in with sandwiches; he could be sleep-walking. Peiying (Annica Panna), her mother, hasn’t bothered to dress properly; she seems to be all eyes, staring at the screen.
There is no hint of the glamorous clubber we will see later, as the films of the family’s lives before their loss keep popping up.
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