REVIEWS
“A beautifully mounted musical epic combining traditional myths with contempo meditations on violence and social inequality, ‘Opera Jawa’ is bold and innovative… Choreography is often mesmerizing, especially when set within the precincts of a gorgeous seaside palace rising above the flat landscape.” -
Variety
“Superbly conceived and performed, it's like nothing you've ever seen or heard.” -
London Film Festival
“With its erotic choreography, saturated colours and rhapsodic, surreal folk imagery, the film might be compared to Powell and Pressburger or the kind of musical Paradjanov might have made in these circumstances.” -
Time Out London
FESTIVALS & AWARDS
2007
Best Music Director, HONG KONG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Silver Screen – Best Film, SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
BUENOS AIRES INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF INDEPENDENT CINEMA
SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL
CINE NOVO FILM FESTIVAL
ALBA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
VILNIUS INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM
BELGRADE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
GRANADA FILM FESTIVAL CINES DEL SUR
GÖTEBORG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
CAMBRIDGE FILM FESTIVAL
CLEVELAND INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
LOS ANGELES FILM FESTIVAL
SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
SEATTLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
WASHINGTON D.C. INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
2006
Best Actress; Best Soundtrack and Musical Creation, FESTIVAL OF 3 CONTINENTS
NEW CROWNED HOPE FESTIVAL
TORONTO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
VANCOUVER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TALLINN BLACK NIGHTS FILM FESTIVAL
VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
TOKYO FILMEX
PUSAN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
TAPEI GOLDEN HORSE FILM FESTIVAL
LONDON INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
