'It doesn’t work as a romance. It is awkward as a comedy.'
LOVE IS LOVE. JC de Vera and Roxanne Barcelo are two of the stars of the movie. All screenshots from YouTube/Solar Picturesopens as a rom-com too preoccupied with comedy that ranges from corny to crass before mutating into something quite splendid.feels ill-suited for the questions it endeavors to ask.
Winona, the transwoman who attempts to woo Anton , her best friend who is oblivious of her transition to becoming a woman, is played by Roxanne Barcelo. While Barcelo is fine here, more particularly when she shifts from being the stereotypical and desperate-for-love bombshell to a contrite character stuck in an emotionally complicated bind, there are aspects of performance that feel forced because they are drawn out of impression rather than experience.Odd mix of many thingsBut it doesn’t.
The film absolutely earns its statements. Amidst clueless transgressions, it arrives at an amiable ending that celebrates love rather than snatches it with narrative manipulations.Francis Joseph Cruz litigates for a living and writes about cinema for fun. The first Filipino movie he saw in the theaters was Carlo J. Caparas' Tirad Pass.
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