Layla Majnun
LAYLA MAJNUN [2021] Starring: Acha Septriasa, Reza Rahadian, Baim Wong Direction by Monty Tiwa, Story based off Layla & Majnun by Nizami Ganjavi Language: Bahasa (Indonesian) Every time I feel as if I have exhausted all the good movies in the world, all it takes is a quick search on Netflix to find a whole new array of movies in a new, exotic language. If you couldn't already tell, that is exactly what happened in the case of this movie. A quick search for Indonesia on Netflix, and I am presented with a rom-com (albeit slightly more dramatic than Hollywood rom-coms) that could give the Bridget Jones series a run for its money. A melding of two vastly different cultures, not just different to my own, but so different to each other is always something that is tricky to pull off in any movie. Indonesian cultural norms and Azerbaijani norms are vastly different, and somehow Monty Tiwa managed to make it work. Who could have thought that an Indonesian film from a fledgling i...