Metro Manila

Very low turnout this week. If you weren't there you missed an excellent film. Here's an interesting interview with director, Sean Ellis, which gives an insight to the making of the film:
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/16/metro-manila-sean-ellis


Feedback score was 88%:

A	Great suspense. Well acted. Very enjoyable
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A	Fantastic plot/acting
A	Manila for my next holiday?
A	A HUMAN AND ALL TOO FAMILIAR STORY.
A	What a heartbreaker! It seemed inevitable that this little family would be swallowed up by Metro Manila but... Oscar somehow saved his family.
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A	Very good story. Well made film. Excellent acting. Very distressing.
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B	Really enjoyed this film and found parts of it unexpected. Acting very good to say some of them weren't actors.
B	Nerve racking — emotional and wanting him to become corrupt too to support his family!!
B	What looked like being a predictable plot turned out to be anything but
B	A very moving reminder of what life can be like in too many places.
B	Good story. Good performances. Beautifully filmed.
C	Quite slow for a large part. Depressing — futility of many people's lives.
D	Not really the type of film I enjoy, but interesting, though harrowing and at times predictably boring.

On-line:

IMDB rating 7.6 out of 10:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1845838/

Rotten Tomatoes. Audience rating 90%
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/metro_manila/

Steve Rose  in the Guardian: “resourceful, distinctive film that builds to a satisfying crescendo”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/19/metro-manila-review

Robbie Collin in the Telegraph:  “It begins as a swirling drama of survival in the Filipino capital — but then suddenly it slips off down an alleyway, only to emerge a scrupulously engineered, Christopher Nolan-ish crime thriller.”
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/filmreviews/10320301/Metro-Manila-review.html

Sean Ellis interview: “Brighton-born director decamped to the Philippines to shoot a character-based thriller in a country he had only visited once, in a language he didn't understand”
http://www.theguardian.com/film/2013/sep/16/metro-manila-sean-ellis