The oversimplified definition of film noirs has long been reduced to stories of extreme cynicism and ambivalence, a test, if you will, in perception of the truth. Naturally, my main attraction with Ato Bautista’s neurotic thriller Gemini roots from the film noirs repetitively played (but with different sets of actors)
Tag: MMFF 2014 New Wave
Five on five—MMFF 2014 New Wave entries
Aside from the primary—essentially mainstream—line-up of films, the annual Metro Manila Film Festival has also committed to an “indie” section called New Wave, which will run starting tomorrow, December 17th thru 24th. We have asked the five directors of this year’s competing films to send us their own best
