Fight! Fight! Fight! ; an Indonesian Martial-Arts Movie from a Young Welsh Director Proves a Surprisingly Exciting affairFILM OF THE WEEK
Sexton, David, The Evening Standard (London, England)
THE RAID Cert 18, 101 mins SUCH a lot of talent comes out of Wales. Ivor Novello, Richard Burton, Anthony Hopkins, Rhys Ifans, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Michael Sheen, to name only the bleeding obvious.
Not so much stays in Wales, though, despite the best efforts of S4C, Bafta Cymru, and of course The Film Agency for Wales, or Asianteath Ffilm Cymru CBC, as it is better known. What can the explanation be? Even so, there's hardly ever before been quite such a drastic example of talent out of Wales as Gareth Huw Evans, the writer, director and action director of this radical martial arts film, made and set in Jakarta, using only Indonesian actors, speaking only Indonesian …
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Article title: Fight! Fight! Fight! ; an Indonesian Martial-Arts Movie from a Young Welsh Director Proves a Surprisingly Exciting affairFILM OF THE WEEK.
Contributors: Sexton, David - Author.
Newspaper title: The Evening Standard (London, England).
Publication date: May 18, 2012.
Page number: 39.
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