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A mother and a daughter share a shack in a Manila slaughterhouse district, and the mother's much younger boyfriend moves in, and from that one sentence the whole machine of the film grinds forward with no possibility of anyone stopping it. Lino Brocka shot it in 1976 inside the actual Tondo neighbourhood, during a dictatorship that was censoring everything it could reach, and it became the first Filipino film ever shown at Cannes. What lands hardest now is not the cruelty but the heat: you can feel the corrugated roof, the queue for water, the way privacy simply does not exist as a concept. Hilda Koronel plays the daughter's turn from endurance into calculation so quietly that you miss the exact moment it happens and spend the rest of the film hunting for it. It screens Monday, October 26 at 7:30pm in Eagle Rock. Anyone with family in the Philippines should bring somebody who has only heard the stories second-hand.
A mother and a daughter share a shack in a Manila slaughterhouse district, and the mother's much younger boyfriend moves in, and from that one sentence the whole machine of the film grinds forward with no possibility of anyone stopping it. Lino Brocka shot it in 1976 inside the actual Tondo neighbourhood, during a dictatorship that was censoring everything it could reach, and it became the first Filipino film ever shown at Cannes. What lands hardest now is not the cruelty but the heat: you can feel the corrugated roof, the queue for water, the way privacy simply does not exist as a concept. Hilda Koronel plays the daughter's turn from endurance into calculation so quietly that you miss the exact moment it happens and spend the rest of the film hunting for it. It screens Monday, October 26 at 7:30pm in Eagle Rock. Anyone with family in the Philippines should bring somebody who has only heard the stories second-hand.
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A mother and a daughter share a shack in a Manila slaughterhouse district, and the mother's much younger boyfriend moves in, and from that one sentence the whole machine of the film grinds forward with no possibility of anyone stopping it. Lino Brocka shot it in 1976 inside the actual Tondo neighbourhood, during a dictatorship that was censoring everything it could reach, and it became the first Filipino film ever shown at Cannes. What lands hardest now is not the cruelty but the heat: you can feel the corrugated roof, the queue for water, the way privacy simply does not exist as a concept. Hilda Koronel plays the daughter's turn from endurance into calculation so quietly that you miss the exact moment it happens and spend the rest of the film hunting for it. It screens Monday, October 26 at 7:30pm in Eagle Rock. Anyone with family in the Philippines should bring somebody who has only heard the stories second-hand.
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