Anthony Chen’s films are known for their hyper‑realist, humanistic studies of people, which might explain why the acclaimed auteur’s earlier works Ilo Ilo (2013) and Wet Season (2019) had no music score. The Breaking Ice – Chen’s fourth feature film – moves to a different beat. As he had shared in interviews multiple times before, he had always intended to break away from the tight control with which he had approached his first two movies, hoping to be more carefree with his follow‑up film.
The Breaking Ice, which Chen describes as a “love letter to the young people of China” – inspired by reports on the country’s dispirited youths – is the result of that freshly unchained spirit. Set in the small town of Yanji in northeastern China and centred on the growing relationship between three 20‑something adults, the 97‑minute‑long opus is also his first work that places such heavy emphasis on the use of music. “This film is about youth. And I knew I wanted music to capture the energy of it even as I was conceptualising the script,” says Chen.
This led him to enlist the Singapore composer and electronic artist Kin Leonn Ho – who goes simply by Kin Leonn when performing and beloved by the artistic crowd for his deeply evocative sonic tapestries rich in ambient, nature‑inflected sounds – to create the score. That the 28‑year‑old’s only other experience arranging music for a show was for the colourful 2022 documentary Baby Queen, which traces the life of the young Singapore drag queen Opera Tang, didn’t matter.
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هذه القصة مأخوذة من طبعة September 2023 من Female Singapore.
ابدأ النسخة التجريبية المجانية من Magzter GOLD لمدة 7 أيام للوصول إلى آلاف القصص المتميزة المنسقة وأكثر من 9,000 مجلة وصحيفة.
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