In the marital hierarchy of Indonesia, where polygamy is still legal and semi-regularly practiced, a man's second wife is known as his honey. Robert Lemelson's cleverly titled documentary, which follows three polygamous families in Bali over the course of seven years, doesn't belabor the latent subservience of these arrangements, nor does it need to — the women speaking about their marriages in a candid, conversational way say plenty. One man, Darma, can't remember all his kids' names off the top of his head; the seventh and 10th wives of Tuaji, who cops to having been involved in his country's communist purge of the 1960s, are sisters. (Tuaji's admission makes Bitter Honey something of a cousin to Joshua Oppenheimer's The Act of Killing and The Lo...
- 10/29/2014
- Village Voice
In an new, exclusive clip from the upcoming Bitter Honey, opening in Los Angeles on October 3 and in New York and several other cities on October 31, we get a taste of life in a polygamous relationship. And, as you might have guessed from the title of the movie, it's not a very rosy look. Robert Lemelson, who directed, combines his experience as an anthropologist and documentary filmmaker to tell the story of three polygamous families in Bali, Indonesia. The story is told over a period of seven years. As the official synopsis states in part: The film portrays the plight of Balinese co-wives, for whom marriage is frequently characterized by psychological manipulation, infidelity, domestic violence, and economic hardship. Much more information is available...
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- 9/5/2014
- Screen Anarchy
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