Brownies : Indonesian film directed by Hanung Bramantyo

Brownies

Brownies is a 2004 Indonesian film directed by Hanung Bramantyo. It is about a career woman who falls for an entrepreneur over their mutual love of brownies.
Mel is a young creative director at an advertising agency who is engaged to Joe (Philip Jusuf). However, she catches him having sex with another woman and breaks off their relationship. This devastates Mel, who becomes incapable of bearing the sight of him and destroys their pictures together. For revenge she begins flirting with numerous men. However, her best friend Didi (Elmayana Sabrena) convinces her to not become like Joe.
Didi takes her to a local cafx, where Are, an aspiring novelist, loans books and serves brownies. Although Mel loves eating the chocolate confections, she cannot cook them well; Are, meanwhile, cooks delicious brownies but has not them since his mother died. The two spend time together and eventually begin falling in love, despite their class differences: Are was once a street child, while Mel has been raised wealthy. They are able to reconcile these differences, and Are gives Mel hints on cooking brownies.
Mel tells Are that she cannot come to the launch, which upsets him. Before she can leave for the dinner, Didi accosts her and tells Mel that she has become just like Joe, breaking people's hearts. After several hours contemplating and cooking brownies, Mel decides to go to the launch but arrives after it is over. She goes to a nearby park where they had often dated, hoping to find him. As she sits crying, disappointed at not seeing him, Are comes behind her and the two confess their love, walking away together and sharing a brownie.
For Brownies, director Hanung Bramantyo used high-definition video; according to Bramantyo, it was the 1st Indonesian films to use the technology. Bramantyo had previously directed several television series and films, but Brownies was his 1st film meant to be commercial. The title was chosen because Bramantyo liked eating brownies.
Film critic and aspiring screenwriter Salman Aristo, who showed one of his screenplays to Bramantyo at a seminar, was asked to write the screenplay. To do so, Aristo did intensive research into the production of brownies. It was the 1st time one of his screenplays was used in a film.
Marcella was picked by SinemArt, while Bucek was chosen through casting. The band Gigi provided the soundtrack.
Jose Rizal Manua bookstore, near Taman Ismail Marzuki, served as Are's cafx. The crew spent Rp. 20 million refurbishing it for the film.

Brownies was released

in December 2004.

At the 2005 Indonesian Film Festival, Bramantyo won a Citra Award for Best Director with Brownies. Bramantyo went on to produce more commercially-viable films such as Get Married and Ayat-Ayat Cinta (The Verses of Love), both of which were viewed by more than a million people.

Brownies was nominated the 2005 Indonesian Film

for eleven Citra Awards at Festival, winning three.

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