Set in a Sumatran plantation, the film focuses on a Dutch newlywed trying adjust to the rough lives in the jungle..
Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for old, sun-drenched dramas that don't care if you're bored, Rubber is a strange little trip. It’s definitely not for the modern viewer who needs a plot hook every five minutes. If you want something that feels like a fever dream you’d have after falling asleep in a humid lib...
Comparing the cinematic DNA and archive impact of two defining moments in cult history.
Johan De Meester
Dallas M. Fitzgerald
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"Is it worth your time? If you have a thing for old, sun-drenched dramas that don't care if you're bored, Rubber is a strange little trip. It’s definitely not for the modern viewer who needs a plot hook every five minutes. If you want something that feels like a fever dream you’d have after falling asleep in a humid library, this is it. There is a specific kind of heaviness here. You can practically smell the damp earth through the screen. It reminded me a bit of the suffocating, trapped feeling..."
Philippe La Chapelle
Gerard Rutten, Johan De Meester, Madelon H. Székely-Lulofs
Netherlands
