Chants of Lotus
Chants of Lotus

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- 77/100 based on 77 votes
  • Released: 2007
  • Runtime: 105 mins
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  • Studio: Kalyana Shira Films
  • Genres: Drama

This is an omnibus film by women directors: Nia Dinata (Love for Share), Upi Avianto (Radit and Jani), Lasja Fauzia Susatyo (Not an Ordinary Star), and one guest director, Fatimah T. Rony.Story of Island (Fatimah T. Rony)Sumantri (Rieke Diah Pitaloka) is the only midwife in one island nears Jakarta. She married with a man named Rokhim (Arswendi Nasution) and cares a retarded woman named Wulan (Rachel Maryam). One day, she left the island for a medical check-up. She convicted ... (Full plot summary below)

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Actors in Chants of Lotus:

Rieke Dyah Pitaloka
Rachel Maryam
Arswendy Bening Swara
Edo Borne
Ical Tanjung
Kirana Larasati

Full Plot Details

This is an omnibus film by women directors: Nia Dinata (Love for Share), Upi Avianto (Radit and Jani), Lasja Fauzia Susatyo (Not an Ordinary Star), and one guest director, Fatimah T. Rony.Story of Island (Fatimah T. Rony)Sumantri (Rieke Diah Pitaloka) is the only midwife in one island nears Jakarta. She married with a man named Rokhim (Arswendi Nasution) and cares a retarded woman named Wulan (Rachel Maryam). One day, she left the island for a medical check-up. She convicted by doctor that she is affected by cancer, makes she must takes operation and rest in Jakarta for months, leaving her life in the island. Revealed that she is still seen bad from an abortion that she doing for saves a life of a woman. Night, Wulan raped and pregnant. And from this point, Sumantri cannot doing anything because money is the real ruler in the island.Story of Yogyakarta (Upi Avianto)Safina (Kirana Larasati) is a High School girl who very close to free sex habit which surrounds her and her friends. Many stories going on, she meets a journalist who wants to write article about free sex on teens named Jay Anwar. He covered his mission by introduces that he is an usually college boy. Safina loves Jay and loses her virginity with him. Finally, Jay going to Jakarta after what he doing to Safina. Makes something should to do by her.Story of Cibinong (Nia Dinata)Esi (Shanty) is a cleaning service in a cheap nightclub named "Merem Melek". She friends with dangdut singers such as Cicih (Sarah Sechan). Esi now lives with her boyfriend, Narto, and her daughter, Maesaroh (Ken Nala Amrytha). After Esi see Narto forced Maesaroh to perform oral sex on him, Esi and Maesaroh escape to Cicih's home with Cicih's husband, Mang Jaja. Then Esi should to takes a fact that Cicih and Maesaroh caught in human trafficking.Story of Jakarta (Lasja Fauzia Susatyo)Laksmi (Susan Bachtiar) and her daughter Belinda (Ranti Maria) get news that Reno (Winky Wiryawan) their husband and father, died because overdose. Laksmi gets HIV/AIDS from him and makes Reno's parents and siblings, chases Laksmi and Belinda. Laksmi, with her little money, finally knows that the way to makes her daughter happy is to not with her.

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User Review - 10/10 by Nining AAwesome movie I just saw. I had never seen an Indonesian film before this and I didn't know what to expect. It's actually four short films that are thematically connected. The stories are powerful and quite depressing...like "Requiem for a Dream" depressing. Each story focuses on a single woman, her experience of being a woman in Indonesia, and how that affects and is affected by her society. More specifically, the stories relate to sex in some horrific way. Also, if a character in the films is a man, he probably deserves to be painfully killed for being a rotten bastard. There's only one male character who's actually a decent guy (not counting unimportant random doctors). I don't think the movies were trying to say that men are all scum, but rather that all too often women have to deal with men who are. And it's not like all the female supporting characters are likable people either. Still, when the movie ended, I definitely had this feeling of "Damn, men suck." I think that's largely because I watched four different stories in a row in which most men treated women like crap. I don't think I would've felt the same if I had watched them one at a time. The back-to-back organization also accentuates the feeling of the women being stuck, with no clear path to escape their situations. I'm guessing the directors actually wanted this. At the end of each story, we leave a woman protagonist in one bad end just to find another hopeless scenario in the next story.
User Review - 10/10 by Chitra Aakhirnya ada film tentang perempuan yang diceritakan dari sudut pandang perempuan
User Review - 10/10 by Rio Scuma pnasaran sama CERITA CIBINONG, tempat si akang nongkrong
User Review - 10/10 by Dee Pi dont have enough stars to rate this movie!!!!!! its amazingly touching and true, and painful. i guess thats whats ny country is all about. I love the 4th story, the most painful of all.
User Review - 10/10 by Private UInspiringly beautiful. i cant get enough of this movie.. personal favourite is Nia's "Chant From A Village", it almost like it is unscripted..
User Review - 8/10 by Renzina Cbeautiful touch of women in this movie.. ya i have to give an appreciate of Indonesian women for this movie..a big one.. well after watch this movie i dunno how to call it..about the man's power and the culture of patriarchy....it so dominated in indo culture...and i hate it and this movie is represent my feeling..
User Review - 8/10 by Romi Adityo NBerbagai cerita ttg perempuan.. Begitu berat cobaan yg mereka hadapi.. Touchy
User Review - 8/10 by Ayu Fmen MUST respect women and women must respect themselves either. it's touching!
User Review - 6/10 by Viona O4 cerita tentang perempuan di satu 1 film. Menarik untuk disimak

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