An earnest and potent critique on the trappings of masculinity.

The magnificent photography creates rapturous images that draw you in to every frame, giving you a wondrous vision of Indonesia and making you wonder why anyone would ever want to make a film with an aesthetic different from this.

With characters coming and going continually, the film is wildly uneven in tone, sometimes broadly comic, sometimes painfully dark. In many ways this suits its efforts to address the chaotic nature of life.

Propelled by a pair of wonderfully complex and compelling lead performances that defy traditional gender roles and societal expectations, this is a defiant and joyous celebration of true love battling insurmountable odds, as can only happen in the movies.