Movielogr
Motif (2019)
Directed by Nadiah Hamzah
Overview
Motif focuses on a police investigation and its most obvious innovation is the female perspective that the director imposes. Protagonist Dewi (Sharifah Amani) is a police officer who is sent from the capital of Kuala Lumpur to a provincial area, Tanah Merah (lit. “Red Earth”), to investigate the disappearance of the young daughter of the local community’s richest family. From the beginning, her arrival is greeted with distrust by her male colleagues, who are doubly annoyed by the fact of having an outsider who is also a woman intrude in the community.
Length 86 minutes
Actors
Sharifah Amani | Rosyam Nor | Iedil Putra | Mustaqim Mohamed Zaki | Redza Minhat | Azhan Rani | Sherie Merlis | Fadhli Masoot | Nadia Aqilah | Azman Hassan | Khalid Salleh