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(1975, Philippines, 125m, Tagalog with English subtitles) dir Lino Brocka w/ Hilda Koronel and Bembol Roco. A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral realism with genre elements of Hollywood noir and melodrama, Manila in the Claws of Light is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.
DCP courtesy of Janus/Criterion.
This screening was made possible by the University of Minnesota Imagine Fund and the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies.
Archives on Screen brings rare, unseen archival films from around the world to movie screens in the Twin Cities. This quarterly series highlights new restorations of rediscovered global cinema with a specific emphasis on silent film and political cinema.
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Trylon Cinema, 2820 E 33rd St.,Minneapolis,MN,United States
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