Film : Philippin
Genre : Drame
Durée : 1h30min
Date de sortie : Prochainement
Avec : Piolo Pascual, Jon Avila, Aleck Bovick
Réalisation : Adolfo Alix Jr, Raya Martin
William, un drogué tente de se reconstruire et de se reconnecter avec les gens autour de lui.
(L'avis exprimé par les rédacteurs de cette rubrique est indépendant du travail et des choix du Jury oecuménique.)
19 mai 2009
Raya Martin directed Independencia and co-directs Manila, keeping his preference for filming in black and white.
We are offered two stories of hardship in contemporary Manila, entering Brillante Mendoza territory without the explicit treatment.
The first story is of a young addict, his search for drugs, and the story of his mother, a respectable church-going matron (who is revealed as having a shady past) who attacks and disowns her son, leaving him in drug destitution.
The second story is longer though it takes place over less than 24 hours. Philip (Piolo Pascual, the same actor as the previous addict) is chauffeur and bodyguard to a spoilt playboy would-be politician who takes his girlfriend and an associate to a night club, is involved in a drunken brawl where Philip, to defend him, produces a gun and shoots an assailant. The rest of the story is Philip on the run, dropped by his patron, taking refuge in a refuse dump and pursued by the police.
Vivid presentation of the city of Manila in all its aspects, rich and poor. But pessimistic.
And, for those who stay for the credits, after them there is another brief tale of a young man trying to reconcile with his nurse girlfriend, allowing audiences to leave the cinema with more hope than the end of the film led them to expect.
