There’s a story that’s very well known amongst the Filipino-American community. It tells of a woman who, after being accused of adultery, was punished by being buried alive. When she regained consciousness and realised she was underground, she tried to dig her way out with her bare hands; even succeeded in getting one hand overground but ultimately succumbed and passed away, one hand still sticking out of the ground, which is how she was found after a while.
“The Celine Archive” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
Often thought to be an urban legend or a grandma’s tale to scare little children, this is actually the true story of Celine Navarro, a Filipino immigrant whose story has long fascinated the community. When her namesake director Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s little son passed away, she was reminded of Celine Navarro one way or another and as a form of catharsis,...
“The Celine Archive” is screening at San Diego Asian Film Festival
Often thought to be an urban legend or a grandma’s tale to scare little children, this is actually the true story of Celine Navarro, a Filipino immigrant whose story has long fascinated the community. When her namesake director Celine Parreñas Shimizu’s little son passed away, she was reminded of Celine Navarro one way or another and as a form of catharsis,...
- 10/28/2020
- by Rhythm Zaveri
- AsianMoviePulse
Close-Up is a feature that spotlights films now playing on Mubi. Jean-Claude Brisseau's Céline (1992) is showing July 20 - August 18, 2019 in the United States.Early in his career, once his ambitious, feature-length debut made on Super 8 had been discovered by Éric Rohmer and Maurice Pialat, Jean-Claude Brisseau (1944-2019) attracted the tag of being a social realist, a “poet of suburbia.” From Life the Way It Is (1978) to Sound and Fury (1988), the jagged, often violent plots reflected his life experience as a committed teacher to troubled, working-class kids. But other, less-heralded aspects of these films, as well as of A Brutal Game (1983) and White Wedding (1989), were already pointing in a different, more holistic direction: dreams and visions, intimating the presence of some broadly defined “other world.” Brisseau declared in 2002: “My films are all about the problem of our relation to reality—whatever that reality may be. I’ve always...
- 7/29/2019
- MUBI
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