La Luna | The-Making-Of: Behind The Story - video Dailymotion

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The arrival of a lingerie shop suddenly stirs the passionless villagers but village head is hell-bent to drive it out of their kampung at all cost!

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00:00 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:03 "Lalona" is about change.

00:05 It's about how times are changing.

00:08 People should change, should evolve.

00:11 And sometimes when we don't, we get stuck.

00:14 And to me, that's dangerous, because change should always

00:19 be the only constant.

00:20 I've been very, very happy for the past 22 days,

00:22 because every single day is about removing

00:25 shots in my head that I've had for almost 10 years

00:28 about this film.

00:30 So I'm very, very excited.

00:31 And I really just can't wait to show people

00:34 what "Lalona" is about.

00:35 [MUSIC PLAYING]

00:49 And cut.

00:50 Hi, my name is M. Rahan Halim, and I'm

00:52 the writer and director for the film "Lalona."

00:55 Inspiration comes from an old, old article

00:58 that I've read about a lingerie shop in Saudi,

01:01 or maybe somewhere in the Middle East, that was burned down.

01:03 And I'm just wondering why.

01:04 Why would somebody do that?

01:07 The questions that I have just led

01:09 to telling a story that challenges my perspectives,

01:14 knowing that I wanted to do something about the moon,

01:17 something about the title "Lalona"

01:18 just evoke something cute to me.

01:22 For the longest time, it was just

01:23 supposed to be this jokey little idea about a lingerie

01:26 shop in a Muslim town.

01:28 But only when we pitched it in Hong Kong,

01:30 at Hong Kong Film Art, that people seemed

01:33 to be responding to the idea.

01:34 And when people responded to the idea,

01:36 we thought, hey, maybe there is something more to this.

01:39 We were lucky enough that year to have won two awards,

01:42 the Walter Baron Dreg Award and also the White Light Post

01:45 Production Award.

01:46 That is when we realized we had to start putting

01:48 this little idea and turn it into a little film,

01:52 or a big film, that we have always dreamt of making.

01:57 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:00 Cut, cut it, cut.

02:07 Surround everybody!

02:09 Yeah!

02:10 [APPLAUSE]

02:13 (upbeat music)

La Luna | The-Making-Of: Behind The Story

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