Nyai: A Woman from Java (movie)
Nyai- User score: 6.5
- Production country: Indonesia
- Producer: Garin Nugroho
- Production companies: Garin Workshop, Treewater Productions, Super 8mm Studio
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 10/7/2016
- Run time: 90 min.
Movie description
Set in Indonesia's Dutch colonial era, in 1927, a young and beautiful woman lives with her sick and aged Dutch husband. This woman loses her own name and is called Njai, which means a foreigner's concubine, and realizes that she is living in a kind of prison, while she deals with loads of visitors to her residence. Director Garin Nugroho shows in a distinctive way how much effort a woman, deserted both by the colonial country's law and the colonized country's traditional culture, puts in to retain her dignity.
