Inspired by the famous story “The Abduction of Sita” from the great classic of ancient Indian and South East-Asian literature the Ramayana, OPERA JAWA is a musical like no other in cinema. It tells of a passionate love triangle that leads inexorably to conflict, violence and death. Setio and his wife Siti, run a pottery business in a small village where Ludiro, a powerful and ruthless butcher, controls all the trading activities. When the couple’s business collapses, Ludiro, who has always been in love with Siti, seizes his chance, abducts and tries to seduce her. Inevitably the two men begin to fight over Siti...
| Original Title | Opera Jawa - Opera Java | ||||||||||
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| German Title | Opera Jawa | ||||||||||
| French Title | Opera Jawa | ||||||||||
| Other Titles | Opera Jawa | ||||||||||
| Directed by | Garin Nugroho | ||||||||||
| Country | Indonesia | ||||||||||
| Available Formats | 35mm, DVD | ||||||||||
| Screenplay | Garin Nugroho | ||||||||||
| Film Editing | Andhy Pulung | ||||||||||
| Soundtrack | Rahayu Supanggah | ||||||||||
| Cinematography | Teoh Gay Hian | ||||||||||
| Sound | Pahlevi Indra C. Santoso | ||||||||||
| Décors | Nanang Rakhmat Hidayat | ||||||||||
| Production | SET Film Workshop, Jakarta; New Crowned Hope | ||||||||||
| Runtime | 120 Min. | ||||||||||
| Language | Indonesisch/d/f | ||||||||||
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Meilleure interprétation Féminine
Artika SARI DEVI dans le film «Opera jawa»
Prix SACEM
Meilleure création sonore et musicale
Festival de Nantes
«Exzellent!» schreibt Le Monde, «Magnifique!», notiert Le Temps, «Innovative!» frohlockt Variety: Der Spielfilm OPERA JAWA lädt ein in eine andere Dimension der szenischen Künste.
«Von ähnlicher Wucht ist "Opera Jawa", ein ebenfalls im Rahmen von New Crowned Hope produzierter Film des indonesischen Regisseurs Garin Nugroho... Der durchgängig gesungene Film vermengt verschiedene Erzähl- und Kunstformen: die Gamelan-Oper, traditionelle javanesische Gesänge und javanesischen Tanz, zeitgenössische Choreografien, dazu Rauminstallationen, die einer Documenta oder einer Kunstbiennale würdig wären (tatsächlich stellten an der Filmproduktion beteiligte Künstler schon in Venedig aus).... Aus dieser Gleichzeitigkeit resultiert ein Schillern, das Mozart wirklich weiterdenkt und den herkömmlichen Kinorealismus so wirksam überbietet, dass sich die Vorstellungskraft mit nichts anderem mehr zufriedengeben will.»
TagesZeitung, Berlin, Cristina Nord
«Exzellent!»
Le Monde
«Magnifique, Opera Jawa de Garin Nugroho révèle au grand jour l’existence d’un cinéma indonésien ambitieux. Cette relecture originale du Ramayana hindou, à mi-chemin entre arts traditionnels et avant-garde. Heureusement qu’on peut encore compter sur trigon-film pour lutter contre l’assoupissement estival! Loin des blockbusters hollywoodiens
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Norbert Creutz, Le Temps
«A beautifully mounted musical epic combining traditional myths with contempo meditations on violence and social inequality, "Opera Jawa" is bold and innovative... Nugroho is careful to represent the full range of Indonesia's multicultural rainbow, and performers are all top-notch representatives of their particular art forms. Choreography is often mesmerizing, especially when set within the precincts of a gorgeous seaside palace rising above the flat landscape.»
Variety
«Ein kraftvoller Film mit einprägsamen Bildern, ein Kaleidoskop einer uns weitgehend unbekannten Kultur, doch mit Emotionen, die niemandem fremd sind.»
Wiener Zeitung
«Les stupéfiants tableaux vivants qui y sont célébrés, coulés dans de longs plans-séquences, évoquent ainsi le vieux fond animiste des croyances javanaises, la proximité des hommes avec la nature, leur origine et leur souffrance communes à l'heure du désastre écologique : hommes-bougies qui fondent, femme-glaise à la sensualité tellurique, sons boisés, ballets feuillus, masques fabuleux agglutinant l'organique au végétal.»
Le Monde, Jacques Mandelbaum
«One of the great revelations of the festival, this ecstatic musical retells a traditional love story about a beautiful wife, Siti, her (impotent?) husband, Setio, and a passionate admirer, Ludiro. Nugroho has shifted the context to a peasant village, with Ludiro standing in for rapacious businessmen (a workers' uprising is percolating in the background), though in truth his extravagant courtship smacks of amour fou. With its erotic choreography, saturated colours and rhapsodic, surreal folk imagery the film might be compared to Powell and Pressburger or the kind of musical Paradjanov might have made in these circumstances.»
Time Out, London, Tom Charity
«Son érotisme, le film le tire autant de sa magnifique héroïne - Artika Sari Devi a d'ailleurs reçu le prix de la Meilleure interprétation féminine lors de la présentation en compétition du film au dernier Festival des 3 Continents - que de la prestation totalement corporelle de l'interprète du serpent séducteur, Ludiro, des mises en scènes dansées et de la palette de couleurs retenue.»
Sancho Asia
«The engrossing film 'Opera Jawa', by the Indonesian director Garin Nugroho, delivered one image - a woman drenched in clay, waiting to be molded - that directly echoed a video from the art exhibition 'Green Flame', curated by Meskerem Assegued, an Ethiopian anthropologist.»
New York Times
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