Fiksi., sometimes stylized as fiksi. (English: Fiction.), is a 2008 Indonesianthriller film directed by Mouly Surya in her directorial debut.[1] It tells the story of Alisha, a young woman who moves to a cheap apartment from her mansion, where she meets people with unique characters and stories which she soon incorporates into her obsessive fantasy.[1] According to Surya, the film is an "adult re-invention of Alice in Wonderland" with the character of Alisha being an inverted version of Alice.[2]
Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) never felt comfortable staying in her cool and spacious home until one day, she met Bari (Donny Alamsyah) who introduced her the meaning of love.[4]
Cast
Ladya Cheryl as Alisha, a young woman who moves to a cheap apartment and became neighbors to Bari and Renta
Donny Alamsyah as Bari, Renta's long-time boyfriend of seven years with whom Alisha develops an obsession after she saw him clean her mansion's pool one day
Rina Hasyim as Tuti, the housekeeper in Alisha's father's mansion
Egy Fedly as Bambang, Alisha's personal chauffeur and bodyguard
Inong as Alisha's mother, who committed suicide by gunshot when she was young
Aty Cancer as Dirah, one of the apartment's residents who is a cat lady with traumatic past
José Rizal Manua as an old man who has never entered his apartment unit who used to own the land where the apartment building stands
Production
Surya met her future husband and collaborator Rama Adi while working as an assistant director in Rako Prijanto's 2007 films D'Bijis and Love Is Red.[5][6] In 2007, the two of them co-founded the film production companyCinesurya and secured funding to produce Fiksi., based on a screenplay that Surya developed herself.[5][6] They sought advice from established filmmaker Riri Riza on how to produce their first feature film, who told them to work with someone more experienced in shaping the project, eventually finding those collaborators in producer Tia Hasibuan and writer-director Joko Anwar.[5] Anwar spent a month working on Surya's draft and was credited as a co-writer.[5]
In March 2020, a behind the scene film directed by then unknown Yosep Anggi Noen and B. W. Purbanegara was released on Cinesurya's YouTube channel.[7]
Film critic Eric Sasono commented that Surya's direction "almost fails to deliver" due to the story's "lack of plausibility".[2] However, he praised how Surya dared to tell a story that is "out of the comfort zone" of Indonesia's films.[2] Similarly, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter was critical of the film's "jumbled" time sequences and laid back pace, but praised the story's "overlapping plots" which she called "weirdly fascinating in their own right".[9]
Richard Kuipers of Variety was more positive, calling the film "an intriguing web around a lonely rich girl's obsession with a handsome writer" and praising Surya's direction as "briskly paced and has well-drawn characters".[10]
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