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The first amongst her friends to hit puberty, Zaffan, 12, discovers a terrifying secret about her body. Ostracised by her community, Zaffan fights back, learning that to be free she must embrace the body she feared, emerging as a proud, strong woman. (Modern Films)
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Arvostelut (1)
A likable genre movie about a Malaysian schoolgirl who starts to turn into a tiger. And sometimes her eyes glow like those of an extra-terrestrial. The first half-hour, when she spends an ordinary day with her schoolmates staring at mobile phones and chattering about nothing, tries the viewer’s patience. However, the film starts to be entertaining with the onset of bullying at school and the initial metamorphoses into a predator. Not as horror, but as a child’s fantasy with sensitively depicted states of complicated female puberty. We sympathies with the protagonist and we can see her nervously tense transformations with endearingly naïve masks as a metaphor for her defense against the “bad people” around her. The film is set in the Malaysian jungle, which, in combination with the mythical aura of the tiger, gives the film a pleasantly exotic feel. [Sitges Film Festival]
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