Damar Hatmojo's invitation to take his girlfriend Virna, as well as his friends Mulan and Andre, to Wonosobo, which he had left since childhood, was fatal.
Overall, 18 Presents feels more like a soap opera than a drama, and I feel bad for saying that since the concept is based off a tragic story (even though it’s loosely). I’m sure other people will find this film emotional for them, but as for me, it’s bland and forgettable.
Perhaps the most amazing and groundbreaking quality about The Birdcage is how removed it is from both illness and insensitivity. Whereas films preceding it were often somber stories about the tribulations of being gay in a conservatively straight world, Nichols and screenwriter Elaine May expose the fallacies of conservatism as traditional values are thrown into a more open-minded space. They don’t care how far the community has fallen so much as how high they can rebuild themselves.
I'm bad, and that's good. I will never be good, and that's not bad. There's no one I'd rather be than me.
We chat with Penelope Lawson about her short film, The Dinner Party, her experience founding her own production company, and fun cinema.
The repeated actions, the blood on the petals, the rustling under the floor…An ambient short horror film takes us into another realm.
