The young man has fallen from the sky
The lines of communication are burned
To flee the city and its tumult, get back to nature
Enter into another story
Of the legend of the prince
In the hope of a love
To hide in the hollow of the tree
Nothing magical is improbable
What happened yesterday can reoccur tomorrow

Against a palpitating backdrop of rebellion, riot and war, this strange and irresistible Sri Lankan tale winds an unpredictable path between myth and reality, war and peace, love and madness.
A half-wild young man travels in an aimless fashion from the city, where he seems to take vicarious pleasure in the mob violence sweeping through its commercial district, only to make his way willy-nilly back home, to a village on the edge of a forest in a shimmering, verdant valley where all young men his age are hiding in the woods from some unseen mortal dread.

The serene motion and exquisite compositions of director Vimukthi Jayasundara’s camera draw us along with this deeply ambiguous, mysterious protagonist in a state of wonderment and expectation, across paradisial landscapes menaced by hellish fear and imminent violence, where nevertheless an easy, humble humor and wisdom also abide. Fate, prophesy, destiny and myth wrap themselves around the realistic and contemporary reality of civil war, as we halt by two happy fishermen relating a story about a certain banished prince, hiding in the hollow of a tree, awaiting the moment of his revenge. When our protagonist follows visions of death to the edge of a nearby lake, an older man swimming there recognizes the truth in such seeming hallucinations. “Nothing’s improbable,” he notes matter-of-factly. “What happened before may happen again.”
This confident and alluring second feature from Jayasundara (The Forsaken Land, 2005) uses a bold, beautiful, mysterious blending of realism and allegory to crack open a world turned upside down.

Ahasin Wetei.2009.720p.FR-HDTV.AC3.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 21mn
Size: 	2.38 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	Variable
Bit rate: 	4 000 Kbps
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Audio
#1:  	Sinhala 2.0ch AC-3 @ 192 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/856A834024E269B/Ahasin_Wetei.2009.720p.FR-HDTV.AC3.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/C05CB6EEBB7A92C/Ahasin_Wetei.2009.720p.FR-HDTV.AC3.eng.srt

Language(s):Sinhalese
Subtitles:French hardcoded, English

The post Vimukthi Jayasundara – Ahasin Wetei aka Between Two Worlds (2009) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Anura is a loyal soldier tainted by the tedium of a service he has forgotten how to define. His only company at the remote outpost is an alcoholic soldier named Piyasiri, whom he sees in passing as they trade shifts. Anura finds that even the prankish behavior of the infrequently passing soldiers isn’t enough to offset the numbing stillness of his eternal wait anymore. Even at home, the inertia of the emotionless landscape persists, and between disconnected sexual encounters with his disinterested wife, Lata, detached conversations with his single sister, Soma, and the heart-breaking dejection of their young charge, Batti, it appears as if, in this war-torn wasteland, hope is nothing more than forgotten emotion and routine is the only nourishment for a collection of sad, starved souls.

1.98GB | 1h 48mn | 839×472 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/0B54661EF7AD289/The_Forsaken_Land_(2005)_–_Vimukthi_Jayasundara.mkv

Language(s):Sinhalese
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Vimukthi Jayasundara – Sulanga Enu Pinisa AKA The Forsaken Land (2005) first appeared on Cinema of the World.