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Synopsis

Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.

Year2008
CountryPhilippines
DirectorLav Diaz
Cinematic DNA
I’m thinking about movies that I love like 'Melancholia' and 'The Mirror' that are less concerned with plotting and more with creating a dream logic and kind of going into a subjective space.
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