Release: Either/Or

 

Either/Or

Genre: Drama

Director: Meirad Tako

Writer: Meirad Tako

Cast: Bryan Domani, Amanda Rawles, Mawar de Jongh

Budget: $7,000,000

Domestic Box Office: $2,596,003

Foreign Box Office: $5,305,001

Total Profit: -$8,999,929

Reaction: These smaller, foreign-centric projects very rarely work at the box office, but with low costs this one isn't much of a loss financially.

"Either/Or is a deeply intimate drama and to me Meirad Tako’s strongest work to date. Quiet, raw, and unapologetically human, the film explores grief and love with rare sensitivity. Amanda Rawles delivers a hauntingly beautiful performance as Hana, grounding the story in heartbreaking realism. The film tells a lot of the story through silence, glances, through memories. I truly hope audiences aren’t discouraged by the language or the Indonesian cast, because this is storytelling at its purest." - Seth Black, LA Times

"Meirad Tako’s Either/Or is a film of surprisingly somber grace and philosophical depth—a quiet meditation on grief, love, and the liminal spaces in between. While its languid pacing and heavy introspection may not suit all tastes, Either/Or rewards patient viewers with a profoundly affecting experience." - Richard Harrow, The Boston Chronicle

"Either/Or is a slow-burn heartache parade. Bryan Domani turns in a strong performance, and the hospital sequences are genuinely wrenching. But once the love triangle kicks in, the film leans too hard into poetic navel-gazing and loses its footing. The connection between Arya and Siska feels more like trauma dumping than deep romance, and the women—while well-acted—feel more like metaphors than characters. Director Meirad Tako clearly has a vision, but he might’ve used a tighter runtime and one less monologue about parallel universes. Still, if sadboi cinema is your thing, this is right up your alley." - Sasha Greene, NeonVice.com​​​​​​​​​​​​

Rated R for language, thematic material, and brief sexual content