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Mouly Surya’s ‘Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts’ is a risky undertaking

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 only Australian in Bali

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