Berbagi Suami

I just got the opportunity to watch this movie on VCD, and it was such a splendid time.

I can definitely say that comparing this film with such a highly pretentious horse s**t as 'Ekskul' was like comparing Heaven and Hell! ('Berbagi Suami' as Heaven, of course...) I honestly can't understand what the FFI-committee thought when they picked Ekskul as Best Picture. Furthermore, that horse s**t also won Best Director!! Oh, come on, give me a f**king break, will you?! Giving a 'Best Director' award to a director that, apparently, disliked 'The Godfather'?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! They should have given the award for Picture and Director to this movie, instead! Berbagi Suami is an earnest, simple film about three families adopting a polygamy way of life, and many consequences (not a few are dire ones) that they have to face. It is funny at times, heartbreaking, and will bring smiles to all the audiences.

Maybe the members of the FFI committee are just too cheesy to pick a film as beautiful as this one.

Nia Dinata's sophomore feature weaves together three intertwined stories about polygamy, marriage, and relationships. Handsomely shot, warmly acted, and smartly written with complex but identifiable characters and smart, believable dialogue, 'Berbagi Suami' is an all-round entertaining and thought-provoking classic.

I don't understand why many of my mates refuse to see this kind of movie. The kind of film, where for about 2 hours you will see a characters doing their talking. Yes! talking and talking where there are no action or explosive or super hi-tech gadget or even alien from Mars or a Superduperhero try to save the world.

This is why in general, this type of film drama didn't quite make it to be a box office in Malaysia. And I can say that why Malaysian film industry hardly compete with our neighbors country especially in ASEAN in making good film.

Berbagi Suami for me is very good film. It rated 18PL in Malaysian Cinema. The movie tell the story of 3 big women characters in dealing with polygamy in their marriage lives. The film divided its story with this 3 characters each and at some point will give us flash back that will connect to the other characters without even realizing that they share a similar problem.

For me this movie send a very clear message that it reject polygamy. Well.. the film is written and directed by Nia Dinata. A Woman!

I Like this movie very much even I am a man mostly because its storyline, its cinematography and the characters played by the casts.

Even the director put a footage of the Tsunami in Acheh in this film that really touch my heart.

I give 9 out of 10 for this movie. I wonder when will Malaysia my country will produced such a good film like this??

An Indonesian friend gave me this DVD, and I wish it could get a wider audience. The English subtitles are easy to follow. The characters are complex. It is not simply "polygamy is bad."

Nia Dinata's sophomore feature weaves together three independent stories, each a woman who finds herself the wife of a husband who has multiple wives. The stories are tied together in clever ways that are reminiscent in a way of the movie "Sliding Doors".

So what would you expect from a female director/screenwriter on the topic of polygamy? While taking an anti-polygamy view, the film will challenge you because it does not come across as clear-cut as you might expect.

Instead, we see these three women struggle with conflicts between personal identity and identity through family, self-respect and religious conviction, and independence and security.

Well-acted and tightly written, this is a film worth seeking out if only because it is so different.