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Jul 31, 2009 · The truth is, Kinatay is a difficult film to sit through. Not because the title refers to a washed-up prostitute who gets hacked to pieces by corrupt policemen, but because audiences weaned on the attention-deficit-disorder plotting of Hollywood movies will probably be lulled to sleep.
May 18, 2009 · CANNES — Festival darling Brillante Mendoza’s “Kinatay” is a long night’s journey into the Philippine underworld of casual corruption and nauseating cruelty, seen through the eyes of a greenhorn...
The film premiered at the 62nd Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Best Director Award, the first Filipino film to do so, although the film was notorious for being critically panned by critics including Roger Ebert. The film was included in the 2009 Cinemalaya Film Festival.
Aug 14, 2009 · What makes "Kinatay" even more haunting, however, is its realistic take on the situation in the Philippines. The first quarter of the film, shot mostly in daylight in a shantytown in Metro Manila, is filled with references to the poverty and desperation of the country.
Dec 28, 2018 · Brazilian author Paulo Coelho took to social media to rave about the 2009 award-winning Filipino film “Kinatay.”
This year, his film Kinatay (The Execution of P) was able to enter the main competition of the 62nd Cannes IFF, making him the first Filipino director to bring a film to competition at Cannes two years in a row. Not only that, Direk Brillante was named the Best Director for his work on Kinatay.
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Sep 5, 2009 · MANILA, Philippines - The exciting part in Kinatay is not the murder and body-part dispatch of the female drug dealer-victim (played by Isabel Lopez). It is the flat-tire ending, a baffling...
