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(The following review is brought to you by longtime Athens Banner-Herald film writer Andrew Shearer. To support his work and continue seeing coverage of the local film industry like this, please consider an OnlineAthens.com digital subscription: www.onlineathens.com/subscribenow.) In Singapore, it rains around 167 days out of the year, with an average of 10 inches per month throughout November, December and January. It’s a safe assumption that maintaining a good mood and positive outlook could prove challenging. That’s the setting for writer-director Anthony Chen’s latest feature film, “Wet Season,” the follow-up to his award-winning 2013 debut, “Ilo Ilo.” The Mandarin and English-language drama will be available for streaming rental via the “virtual cinema” platform at Athens Ciné on May 14. ....
Wet Season Movie Review Strand Releasing Grade: B+ Release Date: April 23, 2021 Abdominal injections, vaginal ultrasounds and artificial inseminations are all part of daily lives of women aged thirty-five-plus who want to conceive a child but are unable to. Wet Season introduces us to one Ling, (Yeo Yann Yann), a Mandarin language teacher in a boys school in Singapore. Ling’s daily routine includes: administering daily injections of fertility drugs into her stomach, and giving elementary care to her disabled father-in-law (Yang Shi Bin), while having very little interaction with husband Andrew (Christopher Lee), who has given up on their eight-year old marriage and does not bother accompanying her to gynecological appointments. Her students seem polite but care little about studying Mandarin in a country, where English is the “lingua franca”, used in daily business transactions and sprinkled sporadically in personal conversations. ....