Adapted and written by Ricky Lee from the legal story “To Take a Life” by Teresa Añover Rodriguez, “Karnal” concludes the feminist trilogy by Marilou Diaz-Abaya (“Brutal” and “Moral” are the other two entries), while it screened at the Metro Manila Film Festival winning awards for Best Film, Sound Engineering, Cinematography, and Art Direction, among a number of other awards from local festivals. In 2015, the film was digitally restored and remastered in high-definition by the Abs-cbn Film Restoration under the leadership of Leonardo P. Katigbak and Central Digital Lab under Rick Hawthorne and Manet Dayrit. The restored version of “Karnal” was premiered on August 13, 2015, as one of the special features for the 11th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival.
The film begins with a middle-aged woman functioning as a narrator, and telling a story that took place in the 1930s, during the American colonial era. Newly-wed couple Narcing and Puring arrive at the former's birthplace,...
The film begins with a middle-aged woman functioning as a narrator, and telling a story that took place in the 1930s, during the American colonial era. Newly-wed couple Narcing and Puring arrive at the former's birthplace,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
After the success of her directorial debut “Tanikala” (1980), Marilou Diaz-Abaya was approached by producer Jesse Ejercito to direct a film for him starring Amy Austria, who had recently distinguished herself in the 1979 Lino Brocka film “Jaguar”. I am not sure if what Abaya came up with was exactly what Ejercito and Austria had in mind, since “Brutal” was actually the first Filipino film to tackle rape as a feminist issue, but the result justified their efforts, with the movie winning Best Director and Best Actress in the Metro Manila Film Festival of the same year.
The film begins with the arrest of the protagonist Monica Real, after the murder of her husband and four of his friends, in a case that immediately catches the eye of the public and the press, becoming highly publicized. Clara Valdez, a journalist who is in a relationship with Jake, a divorced man who keeps comparing her with his ex-wife,...
The film begins with the arrest of the protagonist Monica Real, after the murder of her husband and four of his friends, in a case that immediately catches the eye of the public and the press, becoming highly publicized. Clara Valdez, a journalist who is in a relationship with Jake, a divorced man who keeps comparing her with his ex-wife,...
- 4/12/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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