This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam started with the fairly inoffensive comedy-drama Head South (reviewed here), and it closed with an equally inoffensive film: M. Raihan Halim's Singaporean small-town comedy La Luna. In it, we see the daily life in Malaysian Kampong Bras Basah, a small village with its own set of religious rules as dictated by the stern town elder Tok Hassan. Jokes are not allowed in serious conversation, playing modern music too loud in your car gets you a fine, and a team of devout men diligently put black paint on all offensive images on the covers of books, newspapers and magazines. Then, change arrives in the form of Hanie, a woman who has inherited a house at the edge of the...
Rotterdam 2024 Review: LA LUNA, Naughty In The Nicest Way
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This year, the International Film Festival Rotterdam started with the fairly inoffensive comedy-drama Head South (reviewed here), and it closed with an equally inoffensive film: M. Raihan Halim's Singaporean small-town comedy La Luna. In it, we see the daily life in Malaysian Kampong Bras Basah, a small village with its own set of religious rules as dictated by the stern town elder Tok Hassan. Jokes are not allowed in serious conversation, playing modern music too loud in your car gets you a fine, and a team of devout men diligently put black paint on all offensive images on the covers of books, newspapers and magazines. Then, change arrives in the form of Hanie, a woman who has inherited a house at the edge of the...
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