This Week’s Film: Eliana, Eliana
Cuisine: Indonesian

I often find that foreign films, regardless of the country, tend to have cultural value and subtleties that are lost on many American viewers, so I always like to give them the benefit of the doubt and see them for myself. And although Eliana, Eliana has played to mixed reviews, it won awards at both the Singapore and Vancouver film festivals.

Eliana, Eliana, also known as Pesawat Pertama, is directed by Riri Riza, whose other works include Gie, Untuk Rena and Three Days to Forever. With credits to his name as director, producer, and writer, Riza is a graduate of the Jakarta Arts Institute, and won an Oberhausen award for his graduate project, a short film titled Sonata Kampung Bata. His directorial debut was a 1998 film titled Kuldesak, and Eliana, Eliana is his first screenplay, and several of the cast members have worked with Riza on other projects.

My film review will be posted at the end of the week, along with my Indonesian recipe.

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