Jumat, 13 Januari 2012

You Surely Haven't Heard Before: Foreign Films which Briefly yet Hospitably Helps Promoting Indonesian Culture


Don't bother yourself to have the idea of including anything about Julia Roberts' Eat Pray Love to this. Simple rejection: baby, it's too damn cliche.

You'd better check this out.


The Bucket List (2007)


Kopi Luwak Sumatra

Believe me, in the middle of first three-minute run, three-time Oscar winning actor Jack Nicholson clearly said:

"Kopi Luwak. The rarest beverage in the world."



Drunken Angel (1948)

Wayang Kulit

Widely considered by many as the Japanese greatest director of alltime and one of the world's bests, Akira Kurosawa, made such impressive approach to incorporate the culture of Javanese into one of his classic film features, Drunken Angel.

The film was released three years after Japan's ex-colony, Indonesia declared its national independence - soon after Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombing.


The Fall (2006)

Tari Kecak

Sikh-American film and music director, Tarsem Singh has his second feature film visually transformed into a magical-adventure fairytale which crosses over the cultures of the world - assimilating both Western and Eastern.

From the exoticness of Africa to the beauty of solemn Sufi whirling from Turkey to the cultural richness of India to Oriental sense of China and to, yes, Balinese mystical dance of spirit from Indonesia.

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