Southeast Asian Wednesday Night Movie: Indonesia

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Now in its fifth year, the Southeast Asian Wednesday Night Movie continues to build a loyal following of regular film attendees from both the university and local communities.

The series has showcased, often for the first time in Hawaii, more than seventy-five subtitled films which span the diverse and dynamic landscape of cinema in Southeast Asia.

Join us this Wednesday (October 22) for a screening of...

THREE DAYS UNTIL FOREVER
Tiga Hari Untuk Selamanya

Directed by Riri Riza
Indonesia, 2007, 120 minutes
Indonesian with English Subtitles

Suf, short for Yusuf, played by the wildly popular Nicholas Saputra, is a nice, clean-living, middle-class boy. And so he’s the perfect choice to drive a priceless dinner service (too fragile to be freighted) to Yogjakarta for a family wedding. Trouble is, his altogether looser cousin Ambar (Adinia Wirasti, delectable) misses her flight and tags along for the ride--and with her in the passenger seat, a one-day journey somehow spirals into three whole days of all those naughty, hedonistic things that young people nowadays get up to.

We’ve been supporting Riri Riza’s increasingly sophisticated work since he made his first generation-gap drama Eliana, Eliana in 2002. Now, in this admirable road movie, he takes Islamic Indonesia by the scruff of its neck and gives it a good shake. The film notes both the upside and the downside of getting wasted, and follows its characters in breaking a number of social taboos. More purposively, it argues strongly for the diversity of Indonesian society, explicitly challenging those voices currently calling for a conformist and culturally monolithic state. Even better, it does so without lapsing into visual clichés (no cruddy psychedelic visuals) or melodrama, and it maintains a healthy sense of humour throughout. - Tony Rayns

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Ticket Information
Free

Event Sponsor
Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Manoa Campus

More Information
Paul Rausch, 956-2688, cseas@hawaii.edu, http://www.hawaii.edu/cseas/film.php

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