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Jul 16, 2011 · Fable of the Fish: Directed by Adolfo Alix Jr.. With Cherry Pie Picache, Bembol Roco, Anita Linda, Rosanna Roces. A childless couple living in near a dump site makes a baby but result is a fish that lands them as instant celebrities.
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- Adolfo Alix Jr.
- 2011-07-16
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A woman learns an unexpected lesson about faith, love and parenthood in this comedy-drama from Philippine director Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. Lina (Cherry Pie...
There's humour, certainly, inevitably, and tragedy and hubris and all else, but around the flickering campfire of cinema, before this altar of film, Fable Of The Fish assembles an iconography of almost naive realism. It is almost as if it's medieval, unacquainted with perspective.
Jul 16, 2011 · Impoverished, childless and living in a garbage dump, Miguel and Lina become instant celebrities when Lina miraculously becomes pregnant. But Lina gives birth to a fish, which increases her celebrity but leaves Miguel humiliated and the couple at odds.
Breathtaking in the assured manner it weaves naturalist and magic realist elements, Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr.’s tragicomic Fable of the Fish examines belief, specifically the curious conflation of folk tales, urban myths and Christianity unique to the Philippines.
Sep 26, 2011 · Fable of the Fish. Continuing to focus on the margins of Filipino society, prolific indie helmer Adolfo Borinaga Alix Jr. satirizes the rewards and burdens of faith to puzzling effect in...
