Both the most famous, for being the first Filipino film to net Best Director Award in Cannes, among a number of other awards from festivals all over the world, and the most notorious, considering how a number of critics slammed it, “Kinatay” is definitely a landmark for local cinema, as much as for Mendoza, whose international legend essentially begun here.
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The film is essentially split into two parts. The first revolves around the marriage of Peping, a 20-year-old criminology student, with a classmate of his, 19-year-old Cecile, following the birth of their son, while highlighting their everyday life. Peping, however, is in dire need of money, which is why he agrees to the proposition of his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. One night,...
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The film is essentially split into two parts. The first revolves around the marriage of Peping, a 20-year-old criminology student, with a classmate of his, 19-year-old Cecile, following the birth of their son, while highlighting their everyday life. Peping, however, is in dire need of money, which is why he agrees to the proposition of his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila. One night,...
- 4/6/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Competing for the Golden Lion at the 69th Venice International Film Festival, “Thy Womb” eventually won three special prizes by other Italian film groups, while taking up Metro Manila Film Festival by storm with 7 awards, among a number of others from festivals all over the world.
After a rather shockingly realistic birth scene, we are introduced to the two protagonists, Shaleha, a middle aged Tausug woman who works as a midwife for the small Muslim community, she and her husband, fisherman Bangas-An inhabit. Soon we learn the irony in her life, as, despite constantly delivering babies, she cannot have children herself, a point of friction in the otherwise calm life she shares with her husband. In an act of rather altruistic love she decides to be the one to search for a new wife for Bangas-An, who will eventually give him the child he so much longs for. The rest...
After a rather shockingly realistic birth scene, we are introduced to the two protagonists, Shaleha, a middle aged Tausug woman who works as a midwife for the small Muslim community, she and her husband, fisherman Bangas-An inhabit. Soon we learn the irony in her life, as, despite constantly delivering babies, she cannot have children herself, a point of friction in the otherwise calm life she shares with her husband. In an act of rather altruistic love she decides to be the one to search for a new wife for Bangas-An, who will eventually give him the child he so much longs for. The rest...
- 4/1/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Check out the trailer and the poster for Sapi at the 2013 Toronto International Film Festival. Stars Dennis Trillo, Meryll Soriano and Baron Geisler. Brillante Ma Mendoza directs the horror from the script by Henry Burgos. Cinematography by Jeffrey Dela Cruz, editing by Kats Serraon, music by Gian Gianan, while Larry Castillo produces. With the rival station Philippine Broadcasting Channel (Pbc) eating up the TV audiences' major share, Sarimanok Broadcasting Network (Sbn) needs a miracle to stay alive in the competition. In these mad and fearful times, Sbn's news team finds that documenting an actual spiritual possession would be their only hope.
- 9/9/2013
- Upcoming-Movies.com
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