Mel Mendoza-Del Rosario — Playwright (17)

Movie

If You Are But a Dream (2002)
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other title: Kung Ikaw ay Isang Panaginip / Kung Ikaw Ay Isang Panaginip
Rosalie rides the MRT everyday and she becomes infatuated with the handsome man on the billboard. She talks to his picture intently every day until to her surprise the image comes to life. At the same time she meets MRT driver Eric who she finds agreeable. Will she go for her dream or wake up to reality?

Movie

Every Breath U Take (2012)
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The movie Every Breath U Take is a story of a woman looking for love and a man who doesn’t care much about love. Angelica Panganiban plays the role of Majoy, a “virgin-virginan” looking for signs and waiting all these years for her one true love to come. Piolo Pascual plays the role of Leo, a playboy who doesn’t want to take love seriously. They will meet on a Valentine’s Day and love, or something like it, starts to blossom. How far can Majoy go for love? And when will Leo finally admit to himself that he is in love?

Movie

Liberated (2003)
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other title: 释放欲望1
The film attempts to paint a picture of today’s more sexually assertive yuppies. Or as the filmmakers deign to admit, Liberated is more like the local answer to the HBO TV series Sex and the City. Former beauty queen Francine Prieto plays a BMW sales agent. She’s beautiful and she’s very much in love with her boyfriend played by Christian Vasquez. They both look hot together but Francine is intractable when it comes to maintaining her virginity. The frustrated Vasquez, an artist who seems to have a lot of issues to confront, thus turns to his former lover played by Diana Zubiri. The latter happens to be Francine’s closest friend and she’s still much in love with Christian. So goes the predictable contretemps of Liberated, which are enlivened by the rest of Francine’s friends played by Tuesday Vargas and Rodel Velayo. Vargas plays a single mother who falls for a bar tender while Velayo is the gay friend who usually goes hunting for men in movie theaters. Said hunts usually leave Velayo being punched on the nose or without a cell phone. Hunky Winston Elizalde steals the thunder as a quirky artist who falls for Diana Zubiri. This gang is liberated alright. They’re addicted to sex and one-night stands—even the film’s virginal heroine isn’t above enjoying her lover’s body. It’s just for as long as they don’t go all the way. And of course, they have a moral lesson to learn and suddenly, they’re the most wholesome bunch you could ever meet.