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Rajuan Alam (1956)

Rajuan Alam poster
Directed by
Miriam Bucher
Country
United States

How it feels

A semi-documentary that follows a man and a woman in a rural household. It shows their daily life and the quiet tension between their personal hopes and the reality around them.

slow-burnmelancholicnostalgiccontemplativeunderstatedtenderatmospheric

What happens

Rajuan Alam (Perfected Spelling: Rayuan Alam, released internationally as A House, a Wife, a Singing Bird) is a 1956 semi-documentary directed by Miriam Bucher and starring Bambang Hermanto and Lies Noor. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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