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  A Land Imagined Despite my general appreciation for the cinema of Asia, Singaporean films are not my area of expertise. In fact, I think I haven’t seen any at all (at least that I can recall as explicitly Singaporean, though some Indian crime films have had scenes set there when the gangsters are in exile and possibly Crazy Rich Asians ) before I watched “A Land Imagined”. This was a film I was inclined to like and have heavy bias towards because it fit into many categories I appreciate. A film about immigration embedded into a noir mystery, set in a city I have a lot of appreciation for, it was always likely I’d enjoy the film. In the end, my bias didn’t matter because A Land Imagined turned out to be one of the better films I’ve seen this year. It’s a film that starts out with a conventional enough narrative of a detective, world weary and aged, looking for a missing person and having to go to the seedier parts of the city to get information. The story could ha...