May 20, 2015
Taklub (Trap) throws its viewers straight in at the deep end: flames, screams, chaos as a futile attempt is made to put out a fire.
Set in Tacloban in the taklubPhilippines, Taklub shows the aftermath of Tycoon Hayan. Living in makeshift huts and shelters, the survivors are left to pick up the pieces and rebuild their homes amid the devastation. Among them are Bebeth (Nora Aunor), Larry (Julio Diaz) and Erwin (Aaron Rivera), each mourning those they lost in the disaster, […]
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May 20, 2015
“Taklub” tells the story of the survivors of super Typhoon Yolanda that hit central Philippines in November 2013. Topbilled by Filipina actress Nora Aunor, the film is being shown in the Un Certain Regard section.
Since its premiere at the Debussy Theater on Tuesday, the film has received rave reviews from critics.
Clarence Tsui of The Hollywood Reporter concluded that the film “could very well head onwards for a long festival run after its premiere at the Un Certain Regard section at Cannes.”
While […]
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May 19, 2015
“I think it’s a great show,” says Renaud Proch referring to the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
Proch, Executive Director of Independent Curators International (ICI), is one of the guests at the vernissage of the Philippine Pavilion who commended curator Patrick D. Flores for seamlessly weaving together the works of Manuel Conde and Carlos Francisco (for Genghis Khan), Manny Montelibano (for A Dashed State), and Jose Tence Ruiz (for Shoal).
“It’s really nice to see it coming together. It is […]
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May 19, 2015
Brillante Mendoza’s film offers an intimate yet detached portrait of survivors of Typhoon Yolanda.
“Taklub,” Filipino auteur Brillante Mendoza’s portrait of three surviving families a year after Typhoon Yolanda ripped through the city of Tacloban, is more concerned with their emotional devastation than with the physical aftermath. Shot in a no-frills documentary style that echoes its subjects’ deprivation, the film is at once intimate and detached in its dramatic economy, though the finale will leave many viewers saddened yet humbled. Without […]
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May 19, 2015
It’s odd to leave Cannes not having fallen fully in love… with a movie.
I have one more shot this morning before heading to the airport… Sorrentino’s Youth, which is already part of the Searchlight family. I will miss the Gaspar Noe as well as Michel Franco’s Chronic, for which I have hopes. There’s also a Hou Hsiao-Hsien. And no doubt, there will be fireworks in the Fassbender/Cotillard Macbeth, though placement as the closer is almost always bad news.
I really liked a lot of […]
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