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Conclave 2024
The precision of each beautiful frame that breathes life into the many-storied walls of the Vatican & the gravitas of every performance temper the RuPaul's Drag Race-like sensational drama of gossiping men in eleganza. The result is nail-biting intrigue that also presents us an opportunity to reflect on our ideals that have effects that ripple beyond the realm of the personal. Faith can change the world, after all, for better or for worse.
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GomBurZa 2023
To think this edifying and technically competent film — actors with such natural and well-rehearsed delivery of lines in three languages (Cedrick Juan is a revelation), cinematography heavy with semiotics and chiaroscuro which build the world, etc — is part of the MMFF is a victory for the Filipino viewing public and film industry.
We see the artificiality of the Filipino identity, in the sense that the word is used for diverse and distinct ethnolinguistic groups born within the same…
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Decision to Leave 2022
This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.
It's a movie that deserves a couple of rewatches because there are so many symbols littered throughout its duration. Language and (mis)translation. Eyedrops and insomnia. Mist, mountains, and seas.
The camerawork is by itself something to be studied. How it zooms, pans, shifts to present points-of-view. How the smallest of gestures are magnified to depict seduction and desire.
A love (and obsession) story that deceptively packages itself as a crime mystery, "Decision to Leave" is at first a rollercoaster of a cat-and-mouse(or cat-and-cat?)-game before transforming into a desolate and deeply psychological tragedy of two people almost getting what they want.
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