NYAFF XIX Review: GERAN Punches Down With Spiritual Vigor On Gangster Drama And Silat Action Thrills
After spending a great deal behind the camera for a number of projects in the past decade, action movie audiences might have another prospect on their hands with Areel Abu Bakar, having since emerged last October in Malaysia and Brunei directing his feature debut, Geran. Close to a year later thanks to the efforts of Samuel Jamier and his team, the film now gets its day in the West for its premiere at the 19th virtual New York Asian Film Festival this weekend. Pak Nayon (Namron) is the patriarch of his devout family of silat Gayong practitioners who live a spiritual lifestyle in their rural home. Sadly, the family bond that once kept it all together has long dissolved for at least one sibling, Mat Arip (Fad Anuar), a gambling-addicted illegal street racer whose surmounting debts have cornered him into stealing his family’s land inheritance, and turning it over to, […]
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