, a festival darling whose films have been the trump card for Berlinale and Rotterdam, returns to the circuit with a new gem. “Vengeance Is Mine, All Others Pay Cash,” which just had its world premiere in Locarno’s International Competition, is a genre-bending portrayal of an angry impotent young man stuck in the middle of the macho Indonesian Eighties.
Ajo Kawir and Iteung , the lovebirds, are doing all sorts of odd jobs to survive their precarious existence. And on the way, a lot of combat happens. When fighting is not business, it’s self-made therapy; she has to find a place for herself in this sleazy world of men, while he’s burning with the frustration of being impotent.
Encompassing scenes of choreographed B-movie action and emotional melodrama, the film is an adaptation of Eka Kurniawan’s novel of the same title, who also worked as a screenwriter alongside Edwin. It was the zeitgeist he tried to capture, Edwin explains. “Some kind of combination between all I could remember from the cinema of those times. Not some films in particular, because I didn’t want to get trapped in nostalgia.” A lot of it came from the original text.
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