Forever fever

John Travolta is getting down to it by shaking his hips on the big screen. Shop assistant Ah Hock enters
a disco competition to be able to buy a motorbike with the prize money.
Is a renaissance of boobietubes, turquoise flounce dresses with thin shoulder straps, and waist belts coming? Will we again see sexy men in gold lame shirts, shoes with proper heels and narrow trousers that reach high above the navel? After having stepped into the glittering world of Galaxy Disco there is nothing else I would wish for.
The director Glen Goei has made a tribute to Saturday Night Fever. Singapore of the seventies was recreated with hel p of the biggest budget ever for a local film. Music and camera was the responsibility of Guy Gross and Brian J. Breheny, the Australians behind Priscilla- Queen of the Desert, while local knowns and unknowns speak irresistible Sengi ish (Singapore-English) in front of the camera.
During the vaguely chaotic fi Iming the director was given the nickname Zen Glen because of his almost unnatural calm. But if you have taken part in shocking the theatre audience of London's West End nine years earlier, by kissing Anthony Hopkins then you probably have enough
experience. More than 300 times did he let the kimono drop to the stage floor as the name-part character of M. Butterfly. After his success in the theatre, Goei has now made his way into the film world, and this has not happened quietly.
Forever Feverhas not been looked upon with gentle eyes by the domestic critics, but this does not bother him. Goei does not have to pawn his house againDisney's M iramax have made a deal with him for three fi Ims with financial backing where he can choose the script himself. He wanted to make a commercial film to put Singapore on the film map, and he has succeeded.
LINDA HEDIHN

Premiärstatus
Skandinavisk premiär: Medverkande
Adrian Pang, Medaline Tan, Pierre Png, Anna Belle Francis: Producent
Glen Goei: Manus
Glen Goei: Foto
Brian Bremeny: Musik
Guy Gross: Talat språk
English, Hokien