'I thought there would be some noise but it might go away. Now it seems I just can't escape.' Indonesian director Garin Nugroho opens up about the bans and online backlash his film 'Memories of My Body' is facing
Indonesian director Garin Nugroho knew he was courting controversy from the moment he started work on the script for. What he hadn't counted on was that the passions his film stirred would follow him wherever he went.
"I thought there would be some noise but it might go away," says Nugroho. "Now it seems I just can't escape." follows an abandoned young boy as he searches for a sense of identity, alone at first and later as part of a dance troupe that allows him the freedom to express himself artistically — and sexually.
Following its April release, the film faced bans and online backlash in the ultraconservative Muslim country. One city administration accused it of promoting "deviant sexual acts and blasphemy." There has also been praise, however, from within the country and from international critics who caught the film as it traveled the fest circuit (
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