Punggok Rindukan Bulan

Centre Pompidou, Paris
samedi 13 fevrier 2010 a 17h30 / Cinema 2
jeudi 28 janvier 2010
Lundi 11 Janvier 2010

excerpted from OFF THE EDGE Oct 08
Biting Cinema: Viewing the country's liminal zones by Benjamin McKay

Azharr Rudin's Punggok Rindukan Bulan (This Longing) is many worlds away from the glamorous horror of Susuk. This languidly paced rumination on space and place is, on the surface, a tale about a young boy Sidi (Saeful Nazhif Satria) and his father Adman (Sahronizam Noor) who are both emotionally dealing with the absence of Umi (Maya Karin), their mother and wife. Shot in Johor Bahru and largely set in the recently demolished Bukit Chagar housing development, this modest but astonishing film is proof that the promise of Azharr's The Amber Sexalogy was indeed justified. In making a thematic link to my musings on liminality, I can think of no more profoundly liminal a place than JB, and this film captures it with a quiet, poetic intensity rarely found on Malaysian screens.

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