1987 · comedy · war · classic
The Big Village
Directed by Usmar Ismail1h 55m1987
Partoyo, a big-time businessman, abandons his family because of work. A sociopolitical snapshot of Jakarta in the changing governance.
Our read: The Big Village (1987) reads as a warm, kinetic, grounded comedy · war · classic entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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