Filipino director’s Palme d’Or contender revolves around a convenience store owner who sells narcotics on the side.
Paris-based Films Distribution has reunited with Filipino director Brillante Mendoza to handle international sales of his new film Ma’ Rosa ahead of its premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).
Set against the backdrop of the slums of Manila, the film revolves around convenience store owner Rosa, who sells narcotics on the side. When Rosa and her husband are arrested, their four children are forced to trade their meagre possessions to raise money to pay-off the police.
It sees Mendoza reunite with Jaclyn Jose, having previously worked with the veteran actress on Service (Serbis), which played in Competition at Cannes in 2008.
“I went to see a first-cut in Manila a few months ago, and knew right away that this was probably his best work ever,” said Films Distribution co-chief Nicolas Brigaud-Robert.
“In a sense...
Paris-based Films Distribution has reunited with Filipino director Brillante Mendoza to handle international sales of his new film Ma’ Rosa ahead of its premiere in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival (May 11-22).
Set against the backdrop of the slums of Manila, the film revolves around convenience store owner Rosa, who sells narcotics on the side. When Rosa and her husband are arrested, their four children are forced to trade their meagre possessions to raise money to pay-off the police.
It sees Mendoza reunite with Jaclyn Jose, having previously worked with the veteran actress on Service (Serbis), which played in Competition at Cannes in 2008.
“I went to see a first-cut in Manila a few months ago, and knew right away that this was probably his best work ever,” said Films Distribution co-chief Nicolas Brigaud-Robert.
“In a sense...
- 4/25/2016
- ScreenDaily
The 55th Cartagena International Film Festival will take place from March 2nd until March 7th in Cartagena (Colombia). This event is one of the most important film festival in the region and is the only Colombian festival accredited by the Fiafp. Three asian films will be screen in the Gems Category along with a Special Tribute to the Filipino filmmaker Brillante Mendonza.
The Assassin (Nie yin niang) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien – Taiwan, China | 2015 – 105 min.
In 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break...
The Assassin (Nie yin niang) by Hou Hsiao-Hsien – Taiwan, China | 2015 – 105 min.
In 9th-century China, Nie Yinniang is a young woman who was abducted in childhood from a decorated general and raised by a nun who trained her in the martial arts. After 13 years of exile, she is returned to the land of her birth as an exceptional assassin, with orders to kill her betrothed husband-to-be. She must confront her parents, her memories, and her long-repressed feelings in a choice to sacrifice the man she loves or break...
- 2/16/2016
- by Sebastian Nadilo
- AsianMoviePulse
The 56th edition of the Cartagena International Film Festival (Ficci) set to run from March 2-7 has announced a retrospective of the Filipino filmmaker’s work.
Mendoza rose to prominence as a prolific chronicler of marginalised society unafraid to tackle difficult subjects.
His work includes Kinatay – for which he won the Cannes best director prize in 2009 – as well as Serbis, Thy Womb and Taklub.
Ficci, with the support of Revista Kinetoscopio, will present nine of his films that have never screened in Colombian theatres: The Masseur (Masahista, 2005), Summer Heat (Kaleldo, 2006), Manoro (2006), Foster Child (2007) and Service (Serbis, 2008).
Rounding out the roster are Kinatay (2009), Lola (2009) Thy Womb (Sinapupunan, 2012) and Mendoza’s latest release Trap (Taklub).
Mendoza rose to prominence as a prolific chronicler of marginalised society unafraid to tackle difficult subjects.
His work includes Kinatay – for which he won the Cannes best director prize in 2009 – as well as Serbis, Thy Womb and Taklub.
Ficci, with the support of Revista Kinetoscopio, will present nine of his films that have never screened in Colombian theatres: The Masseur (Masahista, 2005), Summer Heat (Kaleldo, 2006), Manoro (2006), Foster Child (2007) and Service (Serbis, 2008).
Rounding out the roster are Kinatay (2009), Lola (2009) Thy Womb (Sinapupunan, 2012) and Mendoza’s latest release Trap (Taklub).
- 1/5/2016
- by jeremykay67@gmail.com (Jeremy Kay)
- ScreenDaily
From Palme d’Or winner “Amour” to the latest offerings from some of the biggest names of world cinema such as Alain Resnais, Abbas Kiarostami, Bernando Bertoluci, Manoel de Oliveira , Brillante Mendoza, Ken Loach, Jacques Audiard, 14th Mumbai Film Festival has a lot to offer to the filmbuffs.
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
The festival offers an exciting lineup of more than two hundred films, spread over about a dozen screen and seven days! To help our readers decide we’ve picked up the most talked about films from festival circuit.
14th Mff runs from October 18th-25th, 2012 at the National Centre for Performing Arts (Ncpa), and Inox, Nariman Point, Liberty Cinemas, Marine Lines as the main festival venues and Cinemax, Andheri and Cinemax Sion as the satellite venues.
To get delegate pass for the festival, you can register here:
1) Beast of the Southern Wild
Dir.: Benh Zeitlin (USA/ 2012 /Col./ 92’)
Section: International Competition for...
- 9/27/2012
- by NewsDesk
- DearCinema.com
Captive is Brillante's most political to date, interpreting the kidnapping of several vacationers by Abu Sayyaf members from their resort in Palawan and their months-long hostage deep within the jungles of Basilan. Mendoza has always used the Philippines' ills as backdrop for his sometimes heart-wrenching but mostly gut-wrenching films. Masahista (The Masseur, 2005), Foster Child (2007), Tirador (Slingshot, 2007), Serbis (Service, 2008), Kinatay (The Execution of P, 2009) and Lola (Grandmother, 2009) are all set against decay and poverty, with Mendoza exploring the intertwinement of such deplorable situations with human behavior, how it forces social norms and morals either temporarily or permanently out of the framework of survival.Like Lino Brocka before him, Mendoza is being revered not for how he sincerely depicts humanity, with...
- 6/18/2012
- Screen Anarchy
- Following the announcement of the lineup for the 61st Festival de Cannes, one thing stuck out to me: where are the Japanese films? A year after Naomi Kawase took home the Grand Prix for The Mourning Forest, not a single Japanese film was selected for the Palme D’or, despite new films by such auteurs as Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Tokyo Sonata) and Hirokazu Koreeda (Still Walking), both of whom have previously been up for the major award. Asian cinema in general made out well with three films being selected for the Palme. Socially conscious filmmaker Jia Zhangke returns to Cannes with 24 City, representing the sole major Chinese film playing at the fest in any category. This can be attributed primarily to China’s stringent censorship laws, which notably flared up in 2006 when Lou Ye’s Summer Palace screened in competition at the fest over objections by the Chinese government (the
- 4/23/2008
- IONCINEMA.com
- Here is a list of the films in the sidebar....We'll be covering a half-dozen selections commencing with the opening film: Control.Click on the titles below for more info:» Après Lui» Avant que j'oublie» Caramel» Chop Shop» Control» Dai Nipponjin» Elle s'appelle Sabine» Estado do mundo» Foster Child» La France» Garage» Gegenüber» La Influencia» Mutum» Ploy » Pvc-1» La Question humaine» Savage Grace» Smiley Face» Tout est pardonné» Un homme perdu (A Lost Man) » Yumurta» Zoo...
- 5/17/2007
- IONCINEMA.com
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