SUBSCRIBECinemanila screenings, 2
Palermo Hollywood - Eduardo Pinto
Wow, this second Argentinian film that I’ve watched just blew me away! Its a very rough, frenetic but fascinating ride as one follows the friendship, travails, and life of two bestfriends from disparate backgrounds involving sex, drugs, crime and murder. I expressly like the visuals, cinema verite style.
Dear Wendy - Thomas Vinterberg
A rather fascinating story of a group of youths, relegated to the background in a backwater mining town that people might label as losers. But to these youths, they are pacifists who just love their guns to the point of worshiping them, talking to and caring for them as if these were persons: close friends or lovers. Despite their being pacifists, power and confidence brought about by just owning a gun changes a person’s perception. In the end, its a violent and bloody death. A poignant film that has seeming parallels in the real world.
Rigodon - Sari Lluch Dalena & Keith Sicat
Not your usual film by the husband and wife tandem. Its about the American dream that almost all Pinoys yearn for, a crack at the land of opportunities and living a new, more promising life as compared back to the home country. But that dream is not always rosy, a perfumed nightmare, to borrow from a title of Kidlat Tahimik’s.
This should be a must see for Filipinos wanting to get out of the country. A stark look at the other side of the beautiful life in America. Beautifully created.
