The Philippines, 1974: as Marcos’ oppressive regime becomes increasingly entrenched after he imposed martial law in 1972, Servando Monzon III, heir to his powerful clan’s hacienda and family business, refuses to capitulate to the dictator’s plans to control the country. In this adaptation of Ricardo Lee’s short story and screenplay Servando Magdamag, Lav Diaz, the unrelenting and incisive prober of Philippine history’s shadowy areas, offers a film of epic proportions. The aim, as unequivocally indicated by the title, is nothing less than to scrutinise Filipino violence and explore its roots from Spanish colonisation to the present day. Feudalism and power struggles are closely examined. Borne aloft by a remarkable cast – John Lloyd Cruz in the main role is a huge television and film star in the Philippines – this “sine novela”, according to the opening credits, mixes up the codes of the telenovela with Lav Diaz’ ostensibly very different filmmaking. The story unfolds of the mutual relationships of a profusion of characters over time, shot in the sumptuous black and white that is now the stuff of most of his movies. The filmmaker himself frames these magnificent shots that stretch out, sensuous experiences of living tableaux attentive to the bodies set in a place as well as to the languages used, to the inner movements and down-time. In this film that’s both a tragic saga set in the past and the tale of an “endless nightmare”, Diaz takes on a dual allegorical dimension – the figures of the philosopher and the blind man – and an informative one, like the revolutionary education meetings that pepper the story. This “tale of violence” is also an epic with very contemporary resonances, as the recent election to the presidency of another Marcos, a devoted son of the previous president, reminds us. (Nicolas Feodoroff)
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《身體拼圖》是菲律賓首部提交角逐奧斯卡最佳國際影片的動畫電影，由導演卡爾約瑟帕帕糅合轉描與傳統動畫技術傾力製作。故事講述一位沒有嘴巴、無法說話的年輕動畫師艾力如何踏上復原之旅。電影加入科幻元素，艾力的童年回憶穿插其中，逐步揭示他心中不為人知的秘密與創傷。艾力在母親和男友的陪伴下，試圖奪回被外星人攫取的身體部位。家人與摯愛的無私陪伴終鼓勵艾力敞開心扉，直面過去。電影透過艾力在旁人身上得到的支持，深入探討現實中人際關係的重要性。《身體拼圖》將引人入勝的故事和精彩的轉描動畫共冶一爐，是一部不容錯過的作品。

在疫情期間被困在家中，博德開始進行線上直播，透過迷幻藥和一隻會說話的貓，他坦誠地展開了一系列情慾表達和身分尋找的探索之旅。

2016 film directed by Samantha Lee