Acclaimed Indonesian filmmaker Mouly Surya tracks the lives of a group of students at a high school for the visually impaired in Jakarta, in her character study "What They Won't Talk About When They Talk About Love," premiering in the World Dramatic section. The drama marks the 32-year-old's second feature, following her debut "Fiksi." When not on set, Surya teaches directing class for first years at a local film school. What It's About: "The odds of love between the blind, the deaf and the unlucky sighted people, set in the school of the visually impaired." Why I Made It: "I feel discouraged seeing films pitying the people with disabilities. For once I wanted to see them in a film where they are as human as we are, and even at certain length, luckier than those without disabilities, at least, in love." Keeping It Real: "Almost all the visually and hearing...
- 1/8/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
A pair of familiar names to Twitch readers make an appearance at Sundance this year with Mouly Surya's What They Don't Talk About When The Talk About Love. There's Surya herself, of course, the director drawing attention in these parts with her earlier effort Fiksi. And then there's leading man Nicholas Saputra, recently seen in Edwin's Postcards From The Zoo and prior to that as the lead in Joko Anwar's Joni's Promise.Indonesian cinema is an odd beast, the nation being hugely prolific but the vast majority of the local output being the sort that attracts little notice overseas or, if we're being honest, gains coverage because it's unintentionally funny. But while the signal:noise ratio of the nation may not be the strongest there is signal...
- 12/10/2012
- Screen Anarchy
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