Emil

Emil

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Quezon City, Philippines
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  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
  • Cleaners
  • Man with a Movie Camera
  • Once

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  • If You Were the Last

    ★★½

  • The Unbreakable Tatiana Suarez

    ★★

  • Bosco

    ★★½

  • The Tiger's Apprentice

    ★★

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  • The Color Purple

    The Color Purple 2023

    ★★★ Watched 29 Jan 2024

    With the tried-and-tested music and lyrics of Brenda Russell, Allee Willis, and Stephen Bray, this film adaptation of the Color Purple musical was practically guaranteed to have power in its key moments. And with a cast that includes tremendous vocalists like Fantasia Barrino and Danielle Brooks (both of whom had previously played their respective characters on stage), the film's most important sections possess an energy and soul that allow its protagonist to dream of something beyond her dire personal circumstances.…

  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt

    All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt 2023

    ★★★½ Watched 26 Jan 2024

    My review for A Good Movie to Watch:

    Painfully intimate and told with very, very little dialogue, All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt resembles the experience of flipping through a photo book and pausing to admire every page. Which is to say that this is a film that requires not only one's complete attention but—like many other arthouse dramas—a willingness to sit with the mundane until it reveals something more profound. The nearly silent nature of its storytelling can be…

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  • How to Die Young in Manila

    How to Die Young in Manila 2020

    ★★★½ Watched 29 Aug 2021

    I think the metaphor doesn't really hold up to scrutiny. There's space here for the Elijah Canlas character to express a little more feeling regarding all the weird things he encounters on this nighttime walk, but the film chooses not to go there. So I didn't quite feel the sense of danger or fear that I think the short wanted to create.

    That said, it's an undeniably creative portrayal of the often seedy network of people that some young, underprivileged…

  • Cleaners

    Cleaners 2019

    ★★★★★ Rewatched 18 Sep 2021

    (a version of this was originally posted on Facebook on October 28, 2019)

    (spoilers below)

    In Cleaners, Stephanie's story is one of embarrassment: she soils herself while dancing on stage in front of her classmates. Sometime between 2008 and 2012, I decided to try Naruto-running a 100-meter dash during a sportsfest. Ten meters in, I tripped and skidded across the concrete, tearing open patches of skin in front of my classmates. About a year later, I asked a girl out…

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