Mouly Surya’s Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts opens on a wide shot of a windswept hillscape. A lone motorcyclist rides towards the camera as an equally lonesome trumpet sounds its lament on the soundtrack. Only the traditional drum keeping
The fastest way to find a cockfight in Ubud is to find yourself a man with a cock. (The double entendre, as Clifford Geertz put it in his seminal piece on the Balinese cockfight, is entirely deliberate: “For it is