Black comedy by James Lee is as sparely composed and quietly ironic as last year's "Room to Let," but bleaker and more unsettling in tone. Lee's cigarette-puffing characters exploit a mute girl who ...

Slow, surreal and spooky, this Malaysian film from 2004 is deftly crafted and rich with symbolism. Teoh is a bummed-out bachelor whose girlfriend has just moved out; the film opens with him in a ...

James Lee directed this 2004 Malaysian fantasy about a working man whose secondhand washing machine is replaced by a pretty live-in maid. In Mandarin and Cantonese with subtitles. 113 min. The Reader ...