This is Film #4/50 of a series that I’m doing on Filipino cinema from the 2010s. Although I will be rating them here based on personal enjoyment, these notes will not be about whether the films are good or bad, but will purely be a free flow of observations I have about them. My initial framework will be to investigate whether there are common narrative, thematic, or stylistic threads across the films of the decade and how I think each…
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The Dance of Two Left Feet 2011
This is Film #3/50 of a series that I’m doing on Filipino cinema from the 2010s. Although I will be rating them here based on personal enjoyment, these notes will not be about whether the films are good or bad, but will purely be a free flow of observations I have about them. My initial framework will be to investigate whether there are common narrative, thematic, or stylistic threads across the films of the decade and how I think each…
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The Woman Who Left 2016
on the way back in the subway i overheard two students talking about the movie and praising how well they were able to recreate the 90s by not making it look too modern. how they were able to show well what a "shitty" place it was to live in. my heart sank because that's just how the country looks today.
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Bliss 2017
It disappoints me to dislike this as much as I did. Anytime I watch a film from my home country, I go into it wanting to like it. And I really did try. But this movie is terrible.
I appreciate the intent and verve that it took to attempt to do this story—it sounds much better on paper than it does on the screen—but I can't imagine that there are people who actually think this works. That sounds terribly condescending…
