Marlina lives quietly in Sumba until one day a man named Markus and his gang tries to rob her house and she kills him. Eventually, she is haunted by Markus, and her life turns in 180 degrees.
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It is rare that a film from Malaysia or Indonesia, less an art film at that, receives commercial release in North America. But MARLINA: THE MURDERER IN FOUR ACTS which premiered here at the Toronto International Film Festival is a special film that comes highly recommended.
The film plays like an Indonesian western. It opens with a sparse landscape of dried brown vegetation to an Ennio Moricone-like soundtrack. In the distance, is a figure of a man…
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