Philip French 

Position Among the Stars – review

Leonard Retel Helmrich's third documentary about a poor Indonesian family is a window on a corrupt world, writes Philip French
  
  

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Position Among the Stars: 'a vivid picture of desperate people struggling to survive'. Photograph: xxx

This is the third film in which the Dutch documentarist follows three generations of an impoverished Indonesian family dividing their time between the slums of Jakarta and a remote village. It's a vivid picture of desperate people struggling to survive in a corrupt world, though formally rather too contrived for my taste.

 

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