European premiere of "Hanyut/Almayer's Folly"
Five Flavours hosts today at 18:15 the first screening in European of "Hanyut/Almayer's Folly" from U-Wei Bin Haji-Saari and with the photography by Arkadiusz Tomiak. Both auteurs will meet the festival's audience after the screening.
U-Wei Bin Haji-Saari, a filmmaker associated with the Malaysian New Wave of the 90s, has often been inspired by Western literature - he adapted novels by William Faulkner and James M. Cain.
This time, he tells a story taken from Joseph Conrad's debut, "Almayer's Folly" (1895).
The film is set on Borneo, where Kaspar Almayer, a Dutch river tradesman, decides to settle down. This character, full of contradictions, is suspended between two opposing cultures, the East and the West.
The leading roles are played by Australian Peter O'Brien and the star of Malaysian cinema, Sofia Jane, casted as Nina's mother. The director of photography, Arkadiusz Tomiak, is known from Polish productions such as "Symmetry", "Palimpsest: A Hypnotic Mystery", "Daas", "Manhunt", and "The Girl from the Wardrobe".
The other screening of the title takes place at Kino Muranow on 10th November, at 21:00, during the closing ceremony of 7th edition of Five Flavours.
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