Synopsis
A "film essayist" in the glorious tradition of Makavejev and the later Welles, writer/director Amir Muhammad is widely hailed as one of the harbingers of the Malaysian cinematic renaissance. His picture The Last Communist (aka Lelaki Komunis Terakir) begins as a relatively straightforward documentary on the life of Chin Peng, the exiled former leader of the now-banned Communist Party of Malaya, with one central quirk: Muhammad omits Peng from the film altogether, and instead tours the leader's old...more