Marlina the Murderer in Four Acts review: Striking feminist twist on a traditional western
THERE is more than a twang of a Clint Eastwood spaghetti western in Indonesian revenge drama Marlina The Murderer In Four Acts.
Marlina (Marsha Timothy) is a young widow living alone in a remote farmhouse.
Then robbers attempt to take her livestock and her virtue.
Marlina gets revenge in this twist on the western genre from Indonesia
Marlina has very different ideas and her actions play out in an oppressive society where any woman seeking justice is obliged to take the law into her own hands.
A striking feminist twist on a traditional western.