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  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 37 m

Summary In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called Shirkers-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are reco...

Directed By: Sandi Tan

Written By: Sandi Tan

  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 37 m
  • 2018
  • TV-14
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 37 m

Shirkers

Metascore Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
must-see
88
User Score Generally Favorable Based on 24 User Ratings
7.7
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Summary In 1992, teenager Sandi Tan and her friends Sophie and Jasmine shot Singapore's first indie-a road movie called Shirkers-with their enigmatic American mentor, Georges Cardona. Sandi wrote the script and played the lead, a killer named S. After shooting wrapped, Georges vanished with all the footage! 20 years later, the 16mm cans are reco...

Directed By: Sandi Tan

Written By: Sandi Tan

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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Universal Acclaim Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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100
Oct 29, 2018
It’s about how reality invades our dreams, and how the people we trust teach us to be less trusting as we get older. Tan plays these themes out with a rare emotional honesty, never allowing the fact that it’s a deeply personal work to prevent her from indicting herself alongside any of the other key players involved.
By Dominick Suzanne-Mayer FULL REVIEW
100
This is so much more than a film about a film, it’s about young women breaking the rules set in a conservative country - the process of doing that was a lot more powerful than finishing the actual film.
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Generally Favorable Based on 24 User Ratings
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83% Positive
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13% Mixed
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4% Negative
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91
Sep 2, 2018
Shirkers is a film that should be experienced more than explained. That sounds like a cop out, but it’s an inspiring documentary about the process of filmmaking, the love of outsider art, but also a cautionary tale about trust and shadiness in the filmmaking world.
By Ryan Oliver FULL REVIEW
88
Oct 21, 2018
Sandi Tan's view of what the original Shirkers represented, and what her new film should be, proves surprisingly expansive.
By Christopher Gray FULL REVIEW
80
Oct 25, 2018
Where Tan describes the process of making Shirkers as an exorcism (presumably of Georges), the final product is more akin to a séance, a communion with a lost soul keen to still be heard from beyond the veil.
By Ben Nicholson FULL REVIEW
80
Mar 6, 2018
Shirkers isn’t about Cardona, but about Tan reclaiming the film and the story that he had taken away from her. Her energized, rough-hewn documentary style doesn’t seem that far removed from her lost debut, but she and her friends have enough perspective to look back at that period in their lives with touching fondness and good humor.
By Scott Tobias FULL REVIEW
70
As the story of the mysterious Cordona plays out, the persuasive personalities of the three women both then and now strike a chord.
By Fionnuala Halligan FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Shirkers, Cinereach, Doc Society
Release Date Oct 26, 2018
Duration 1 h 37 m
Rating TV-14
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Website http://www.shirkersfilm.com/
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Awards

Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US
• 3 Wins & 6 Nominations
Sundance Film Festival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Gotham Awards
• 2 Nominations

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