Fiksi. (sometimes stylized as fiksi.; English: Fiction) is a 2008 Indonesianthriller film and the directorial debut of Mouly Surya.[1] The film follows Alisha, a young woman who leaves her family mansion and moves into a modest apartment, where she encounters eccentric neighbours whose stories she gradually weaves into her obsessive fantasies.[1] Surya has described Fiksi. as an "adult re-invention" of Alice in Wonderland, with the character of Alisha presented as an inverted version of Alice.[2]
Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) feels uncomfortable in her spacious, modern home. One day, she meets Bari (Donny Alamsyah), who introduces her to the experience of love.[4]
Cast
Ladya Cheryl as Alisha, a young woman who moves into a low-cost apartment and becomes neighbours with Bari and Renta
Donny Alamsyah as Bari, Renta's long-term boyfriend of seven years, with whom Alisha develops an obsession after seeing him clean the pool at her family mansion
Rina Hasyim as Tuti, the housekeeper at Alisha's family mansion
Egy Fedly as Bambang, Alisha's personal chauffeur and bodyguard
Inong as Alisha's mother, who died by suicide when Alisha was young
Aty Cancer as Dirah, a resident of the apartment building who keeps numerous cats and has a traumatic past
José Rizal Manua as an elderly man who has never entered his apartment unit and who formerly owned the land on which the apartment building stands
Production
Surya met her future husband and collaborator Rama Adi while working as an assistant director on Rako Prijanto's 2007 films D'Bijis and Love Is Red.[5][6] In 2007, they co-founded the film production companyCinesurya and secured funding to produce Fiksi., based on a screenplay developed by Surya.[5][6]
The pair sought advice from established filmmaker Riri Riza on producing their first feature film. He recommended collaborating with more experienced practitioners during the development process, which led them to work with producer Tia Hasibuan and writer-director Joko Anwar.[5] Anwar spent approximately one month revising Surya's draft and was subsequently credited as a co-writer.[5]
In March 2020, a behind-the-scenes film directed by then lesser-known filmmakers Yosep Anggi Noen and B. W. Purbanegara was released on Cinesurya's YouTube channel.[7]
Film critic Eric Sasono wrote that Surya's direction "almost fails to deliver" because of what he described as a lack of plausibility in the story, but he also praised the film for venturing "out of the comfort zone" of mainstream Indonesian cinema.[2] Similarly, Maggie Lee of The Hollywood Reporter criticised the film's "jumbled" time sequences and laid-back pacing, while praising its "overlapping plots", which she described as "weirdly fascinating in their own right".[9]
Richard Kuipers of Variety offered a more positive assessment, describing the film as "an intriguing web around a lonely rich girl's obsession with a handsome writer" and praising Surya's direction as "briskly paced" with "well-drawn characters".[10]
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