Mouly Surya’s film “Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts” may be set on an island in Indonesia, but she imbues the film with touches from Spaghetti Westerns.
In fact, the film hems so closely to the Western genre, from explicit nods to Ennio Morricone’s scores from Sergio Leone’s films, to vast shots of open desert and prairies and the title character Marlina emerging on the wavy horizon on horseback, Surya said she hopes Clint Eastwood might see her film and enjoy it.
“I would love to be there to see that,” Surya told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven Thursday as part of TheWrap’s Awards and Foreign Screening Series at the Landmark Theatres in Los Angeles.