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Dian Sastrowardoyo, Nicholas Saputra, Ladya Cheryll

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Directed by: Rudy Soedjarwo

Release Date: February 8, 2002

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  • July 5, 2008
    Production Company : Miles Productions
    Year of Production : 2001
    Producer : Mira Lesmana and Riri Riza
    Director : Rudi Soedjarwo
    Story : Riri Riza, Mira Lesmana, Prima Rusdi
    Script Development : Prima Rusdi, Rako Prijanto, Mira Lesmana, Riri Riza
    Screenplay : Jujur
    ...( read more) Prananto
    Poetry by : Rako Prijanto
    Production Design : Adrianto Sinaga
    Cinematography : Roy Lolang
    Editor : Dewi S. Alibasah
    Supervising Editor : Sentot Sahid
    Songs and Music : Melly Goeslaw and Anton Hoed
    Starring : Dian Sastrowardoyo and Nicholas Saputra
    Running Time : 105 minutes


    Perempuan datang atas nama cinta
    Bunda pergi karena cinta
    Digenangi air racun jingga adalah wajahmu
    Seperti bulan lelap tidur di hatimu
    yang berdinding kelam dan kedinginan
    Ada apa dengannya
    Meninggalkan hati untuk dicaci
    Lalu sekali ini aku melihat karya surga
    dari mata seorang hawa
    Ada apa dengan cinta?

    Tapi aku pasti akan kembali
    dalam satu purnama
    untuk mempertanyakan kembali cintanya..
    Bukan untuknya, bukan untuk siapa
    Tapi untukku
    Karena aku ingin kamu
    Itu saja.

    "Ada Apa Dengan Cinta?" is the Indonesian teen movie that broke box office records in Indonesia in 2001 and has proven hugely popular in screenings overseas as well. Produced by a group of young filmmakers, who are starting to win prizes abroad, it represents a new optimism in Indonesia consonant with the expectations of the post-Suharto reform generation.
    A sharply etched yet humorous love story of growing infatuation, ambivalence and near misunderstanding between two idealistic teenagers (Cinta and Rangga) at a high school in Jakarta, this sophisticated and charming film provides an engaging portrait of young people from the middle classes in a major Asian capital city. Cinta (the name means "love") is a member of a teenage girl gang and we first see her in this context. The rather isolated Rangga is a budding poet. When Rangga wins the school poetry competition, Cinta, who also writes poetry and helps edit the student Bulletin Board, wants to interview him, but meets with refusal. Rangga is passionate about the literature of his country, but is alienated from his fellow students due to the break up of his parents' marriage and the political oppression of his father. Cinta sets out to understand this puzzle.
    The film deploys the usual conventions of the genre of the teen romance, but deliberately adds in other elements - calculated use of Jakarta teenage slang, allusions to creative and radical figures in literature and cinema in Indonesia, who stand as role models for the young people, and references to continuing political problems in Indonesia. Underneath its glossy surface and its romantic resolution, the film is asking questions about the idealism of young people and suggesting to teenagers that they think harder about the problems posed by their society and by relations between men and women.


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    I sincerely give an applause for this one amazing indonesian movie. Hats off! AADC surpasses everyone's expectation. No doubt, to me this is Indonesia's best movie ever!! This is the very first time I am really in love with Indonesian movie.
    The poems are real jaw drapper and true instead of repulsive. Though the story itself is quite simple but still beautiful. Dian Sastro acts beautifully natural and realistic. She and Nicholas Saputra are excellent fits to play the roles. They might be young but the have succesfully showed a lot of promises and talent.
    This this the one Indonesia movie that deserves a standing ovation. The main soundtrack Ada Apa Dengan Cinta? by Melly Goeslaw and Anto Hoed is also amazing yet it deserves the FFI award of best music composing. I actually hope someday Indonesia movie production rise from the ashes and able to compete globally. Indeed, Indonesia is working on the improvement and the results is quite promising, such as Denias : Senandung di Atas Awan, Berbagi Suami, GIE (also by Nicholas Saputra), and of course, Ayat-ayat Cinta.
    A MUST WATCH foreign language speaking movie.


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  • January 18, 2010
    lumayanlah buat obat ngantuk...
  • January 8, 2010
    hmmm...awal film indonesia mule bangkit...
  • December 24, 2009
    film cinta terbaik dari indonesia yang pernah gua liat, semuanya ada disini deegh... ini 5 bintang untuk kualitas indonesia.
  • November 18, 2009
    Cinta was a high-school student. She loved poetry, and literature. She was impressed by a romantic boy, and left his friend's matter behind his feeling to this boy. One of her friend tried to do suicidal when she was on a date, she was regret and decided to left that boy. So poor...( read more), this boy and his father have to go abroad because of the hard situation between his father and the bad guy (The father was an anti-government or similar) Cinta felt sorry and confused...
    But all of his friend cheer her to chase that boy. At the airport, both of this young man made promise about their love.
  • November 1, 2009
    inget jaman sekolaaaah ;)
  • August 10, 2009
    Film yang membangkitkan perfilman Indonesia ^^

    for the story... i just ok and enjoy it
  • August 3, 2009
    the best indonesian drama!!!
  • June 27, 2009
    ini memang film remaja yg OK, banget
    walaupun dah berkali2 nonton tapi tetap gak bosen
  • June 20, 2009
    cter nih...
    bulh lar than...
    hihihi

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