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To Horacia Somorostro, life has become an eternal imprisonment, a prison where everything has been very hard, cruel and explicable. The year is 1997, princess Diana had died in a violent car crash. The world mourns the death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta. Far from the spotlight, the Philippines is taken by fear, becoming the Asian capital of kidnapping. An incisive study of the gap between the rich and the poor, past and present, in this tale about a woman who spent nearly half her life in a form of suspended animation. From director Lav Diaz. Toronto Film Festival and Golden Lion at Venice 2016.
Lav Diaz
1958, Datu Paglas, Philippines. Selected filmography: Naked Under the Moon (1999), Jesus the Revolutionary (2002), Evolution of a Filipino Family (Toronto and Rotterdam, 2004), Death in the Land of Encantos (Special Mention at Venice, 2007), Melancholia (Orizzonti Grand Prize at Venice, 2008), Century of Birthing (Venice, Toronto, and Rotterdam, 2011), Norte, the End of History (Cannes’ Un Certain Regard, 2013), and From What Is Before (Locarno, 2014).
