Rindu kami padamu
Indonesia,
2004, 90 min
Shown in 2005
CREDITS
- dir
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Garin Nugroho
- prod
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Anastasia Rina, Teddy Ibrahim Anwar
- scr
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Armantono
- cam
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Joseph Fofid
- editor
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Arturo GP
- mus
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Dwiki Dharmawan
- cast
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Nova Eliza, Sakurta H. Ginting, Didi Petet, Neno Warisman
- source
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SET Film Workshop & Creative Motion Pictures, Jln. Sinabung No. 4B, Kebayoran Baru, Jakarta Selatan 12120, Indonesia. FAX: 62-21-722-9638. EMAIL: set@indo.net.id.
- premiere
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North American Premiere
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COMMENTS
Garin Nugroho in person.
OTHER
A gentle comedy of hopes and absences, Indonesian director Garin Nugroho’s latest film is a touching meditation on the idea that everyday expressions of love form the true basis of religious spirit and community. Set in a small Jakarta market around the time of Lebaran—the most important holiday of the year for Indonesian Muslims, as well as a traditional time of homecoming—the film focuses on the lives of three children as they struggle with family displacements. Rindu has lost contact with her brother following a forced eviction from their home. Rindu’s best friend Asih longs for the return of her absent mother, unrolling her mother’s prayer rug each day at the mosque in the hope that she’ll come back. And the orphaned Bimo creates unending problems for his older brother, an egg seller at the market, by developing a surrogate-mother attachment to a young woman on whom his brother has shy romantic designs. Nugroho weaves their stories into the hopes and frustrations of other characters in the market—a lovingly crafted studio set—giving his realistic fairy tale a rich sense of lives interconnected, and a world where even the smallest gestures of affection can bring welcome grace.
—Steve Mockus
FACTOID #88
Steve Cochran, the American actor who starred in Michelangelo Antonioni’s 1957 SFIFF entry Il Grido, demanded a private screening of the film before it could be shown to Festival audiences so he could ensure that scenes that had been censored in Italy had not been cut from the print. Cochran, who had American distribution rights to the film, got a screening’delaying the film’s 8:30 start time for ticketholders.
