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And the Breadwinner Is... 2024
a heartbreaker for sure. bambi spent the entire film getting sidelined by the family she carried on her back for nearly 20 years. when the welcome wasn’t as warm as she hoped and her dreams remained objects of distant fantasies, it’s easy to empathize with the child who spent her life working herself to the bone with little appreciation. the film had its flaws but the meticulous grip and attack on typical filipino familial reciprocity is enough to supersede the…
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GomBurZa 2023
the strongest entry to this year’s mmff. it’s an indictment of colonization rather than a critique of the weaknesses of the resistance—a dichotomy exhibited by right-leaning propagandist films that sees fault in the margins. diokno delivered a moving looking glass that retells historical figures’ stories like flipping through vignettes of revolutionary memories instead of state-approved textbooks.
what a performance from cedrick juan as well. his dialogues were chilling, novel, and hard-hitting. it’s one thing to watch him in secondary roles in…
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