At MoMA: GIE
At The Avalon, DC: A GOOD LAWYER'S WIFE
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Asian
CineVision is proud to kick off the fall/winter line-up of the Asian Cinevisions monthly film series at the Museum of Modern Art, with films from Japan, Singapore, Indonesia and Malaysia. Special discount for ACV members! Show valid membership card and pay only $6 for admission to the screenings.
GIE
Directed by Riri Riza
Cast: Nicholas Saputra, Sita Nursanti, Lukman Sardi, Indra Birowo
Indonesia | 2005 | 147 min | Color | In Bahasa Indonesian with English subtitles
Riri Riza’s new film is a bio-pic of a most unusual kind: the story of a non-aligned thinker and writer. Soe Hok-Gie (pronounced Su Hok-Gee, with a hard "g") was a Chinese-Indonesian born during the Pacific War who came to maturity in the period of "President-for-life" Soekarno’s victory over the Dutch colonial power and was working as a teacher when Soekarno was replaced by the increasingly totalitarian Soeharto in 1966. And so his formative years were spent in an Indonesia struggling to define its identity: at first potentially communist, then militantly anti-communist, finally corrupt, crony-ridden and deeply repressive. Across all of these changes, Soe Hok-Gie remained a free-thinker and critic of the successive regimes as revealed in his journals, published posthumously in 1983.
Of course Riri is using Soe Hok-Gie as a prism through which he can examine the birth-pangs of modern Indonesia. His epic-scale film is, amongst other things, a vivid, teeming recreation of the late 1950s and early 1960s in Jakarta (with fine costumes and art direction by Iri Supit). But it’s also inescapably a film for present-day Indonesia, again struggling to define its identity and again searching for humane and just government. Soe Hok-Gie may be the film’s prism, but thanks to a more than credible performance from Nicholas Saputra he’s also a very human young man: tetchy, combative and slightly puritanical, but burning with an idealistic desire for a fairer society and better leaders. -- Vancouver International Film Festival 2005
WHEN: Wednesday, November 15, 7PM; Thursday, November 16, 8PM
WHERE: Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street.
NY, NY 10019
T: 212-708-9400
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A GOOD LAWYER'S WIFE
Directed by Im Sang-Soo
Cast: Moon So-Ri, Kim In-mun, Hwang Jeong-Min, Yun Yeo-Jong
South Korea | 2003 | 104 min | Color | In Korean with English subtitles
Lawyer Young-jak (Hwang) counsels families of massacre victims between spending time with his family and his lover. His wife Ho-jung (Moon) releases her energy through dance rehearsals between caring for their adopted son and her in-laws. Aware of Young-jak's infidelity, Ho-jung begins fancying the high-school boy next door, a crush that leads the good lawyer's wife into some remarkably unlawful circumstances. A box-office success in South Korea, A Good Lawyer's Wife continues the remarkable trend amongst recent Korean films to confront shifting gender roles. The lawyer struggles to release himself from the transgressions of his father's past, whereas his mother joins with his wife to break from the traditions that confine, while still retaining those that heal. -- VC Filmfest 2004
When: Wednesday, Nov 8, 8pm (One night only!)
Where: The Avalon Theatre
5612 Connecticut Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20015
Tel: 202.966.6000
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