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

“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 […]