This is AI generated summarization, which may have errors. For context, always refer to the full article.From 'Isang Himala' to 'Espantaho,' film critic Le Baltar looks at the different, sometimes clashing reasons that make each of these 5 movies worth a watchof 10 full-length films, now screened alongside 10 competing student shorts, which is part of the festival’s collaboration with the Film Development Council of the Philippines .
With Lee still working on the text and Aunor having a special participation, Diokno gathers the same artistic team that steered the 2018 staging, and what he calibrates in this retelling about a town eroded by an alleged holy sighting are far more pointed interrogations of faith, womanhood, and precarity.
The picture has issues with flow, boasting a torrent of ideas and conflicts in one scene, then conveniently speeding its resolutions in the next. The film could have really reaped something more biting had it committed wholeheartedly to its dramatic conceit and provided the rest of the characters more plotlines instead of treating them as mere vehicles to forge more inciting incidents.
If you could move past all the narrative fat and lapses to bask in a rather long, profoundly crushing juncture in the second half, flexing the ensemble’s strengths and invoking Lana’s gorgeous blocking inHilarity meets horror in this surreal, near-camp experience about pestilence, marital tensions, and scarecrow-induced killings.
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