Sunday Story
2017 · 9m · Indonesia
Directed by Adi Marsono
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic
A housewife's hectic Sunday-morning routine goes off the rails when her indifferent husband refuses to help take the children to school.
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A domestic meltdown wrapped in sitcom drag—but the film's refusal to resolve into either pure farce or sentiment, just lets it sit in that uncomfortable middle, makes it genuinely unsettling in ways the premise has no right to be.
Marsono locates himself in a lineage of domestic comedy that runs through Tati and the Dardennes, respecting the form's architecture while interrogating its moral weight; the editing sustains the escalation without hysteria.
The film lives or dies on the husband's absolute flatness—that refusal to perform concern or even annoyance—and it's such a precise performance choice that it transfigures what could've been a tired marital-complaint into something genuinely destabilizing.
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One movie that dares to represent women as dominant figures is Kisah di Hari Minggu (2017) by Adi Marsono. The movie tells the story of a housewife who runs her daily tasks, such as preparing breakfast and asking her children to attend school.