BERLIN : Two southeast Asian films competing at this year's Berlin Film Festival explore what violence does to human beings, one through painful historical narrative and one through fantasy.
The film keeps a tight focus on the impact of violent times on the lives of Nana, played by Happy Salma, and the women and children around her, showing her controlling outward emotion with a discipline as tight as the long, winding garments she must wrap herself in for formal occasions. Unable to take solace in victimhood, and frustrated at her new husband's infidelity, she finds strength in an unlikely quarter, by bonding with her husband's mistress.
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