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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. by [John Krich](https://time.com/author/john-krich/) Nov 16, 2009 5:00 AM UTC  Dial 1800-NoirFrom left, Sunny Pang and Pete Teo with fellow cast member Chua Thien See Dial 1800-NoirFrom left, Sunny Pang and Pete Teo with fellow cast member Chua Thien See Tan Chui Mui by [John Krich](https://time.com/author/john-krich/) Nov 16, 2009 5:00 AM UTC James Lee has finally come of age, and with him, independent Malaysian film (or more accurately, digital video). A lanky, laconic figure who often sports a mohawk and downplays his experimentation as a part-time sideline to commercial TV work, the Ipoh-born Lee has been honing his craft for nearly a decade — moving beyond amateurish imitations of Jim Jarmusch where quirky characters seemed to inhabit a lot of dead, plotless space. _In Call If You Need Me_, a taut study of petty criminals shot in a month on a low budget, his long takes, real-time, off-hand dialogue and minimal exposition combine to superb effect in charting the pull of human loyalties. This is a gangster film that works without violence — or even revealing, until close to the end, that these pill-popping, pleasure-seeking if girl-shy goof-offs are gangsters at all. And Lee wisely lets singer turned actor Pete Teo and sleepy-eyed Singaporean cult actor Sunny Pang (cast as a country bumpkin who rises by default to gang boss) carry the weight with amazingly nuanced and uncontrived nonperformances. [(See TIME’s complete coverage: The 2009 Cannes Film Festival.)](https://www.time.com/time/specials/packages/article/0,28804,1898196%5F1898204,00.html) Without overt political intent, _Call If You Need Me_ shows a Malaysia that may shock many. Here’s an entirely amoral, unrelentingly materialist nation that’s 100% populated by Hokkien Chinese. This is no devout, mostly Muslim society, nor some showcase of the harmonious multiculturalism shown in destination commercials. Instead of being “truly Asia,” to quote the country’s official tourism slogan, Lee’s Malaysia is truly segregated. The film won the silver prize in the Hong Kong International Film Festival’s Asian Digital Competition. Too bad the miniDV shooting format, and timid distributors, will keep this instant noir classic from getting the wider response it deserves. 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