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The Anniversaries| 12mins
Director: Ariani Darmawan | Producer: Shanty Harmayn, Orlow Seunke
Focus Years: 2006 | Country: Indonesia
Subject Tags: asia, indonesia, relationships
Quality Tags: Optimistic, Slow, Activating, Harmonizing
Synopsis:
This story evolves on the main characters, a husband and a wife, who live an unhappy marriage. The elevator, the sole setting of the movie captures their journey to the same restaurant each year, celebrating their anniversaries. This film questions the relation between love and marriage. Important moments of their marriage are commemorated every year, even when they realize that they are living a miserable marriage. The celebration, in the end, becomes a habitual feast that is rejoiced only to survive their 'sacred' bond. Each year of their marriage is depicted by conflicts that occur inside the elevator. The conversations between them get sharper as their relationship gets more and more twisted towards the end, but the film itself opens the story to broader interpretations of the couple's future.

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