The Tragic Voice of a Rote Woman
Monday, January 29, 2024
Women from Rote Island directed by Jeremias Nyangoen is Tempo’s Best Film of 2023. This film explores the deep sorrow of a Rote woman while exposing patriarchal discrimination as a cultural tradition.
THE opening scene of this film shows a nude woman with her back to the camera, walking towards the sea. The next sequence depicts a funeral scene that is delayed because a woman, who has recently lost her husband, firmly tells the mourners that they must wait for her daughter to arrive from abroad before they can bury her husband. The camera follows the movements of the characters as they move around among the waiting guests.
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