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Aug 22, 2014 · The Telegraph. Aug 18, 2014. Metro Manila is so spellbound by its setting that it is a good hour before we discover what kind of film it is going to be. 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 ...
Oct 10, 2013 · The film’s main setting, Metro Manila itself, is constantly presented as a beautiful monstrosity and a massive paradox, the towering skylines of Makati’s central business district constantly ...
Sep 19, 2013 · Metro Manila – review. British director Sean Ellis makes a distinctive marriage of social drama and crime thriller in this Philippines-set film. Steve Rose. Thu 19 Sep 2013 17.00 EDT. T ales of ...
METRO MANILA is a very slow film indeed in which little happens, and yet there's overriding suspense, a sense of futile inevitability, which makes it absolutely gripping. The production values of the movie are strong indeed, and the performances are naturalistic in the extreme.
Aug 18, 2014 · Review: Metro Manila. Director Sean Ellis hopes that the foreign setting will somehow automatically make the clichés feel fresh. A man moves to Manila, capital of the Philippines, looking for a better life, but encounters challenges along the way that test his moral limits. That, give or take a few details, is the basic setup not only of Sean ...
Aug 18, 2013 · But he soon learns that his troubles are just beginning. "Metro Manila" won the Audience Award in the World Cinema Dramatic category at the Sundance Film Festival. "Metro Manila" lives up to its R-13 rating due to some violence and nudity—proving that even a foreigner can see that life in the big city is not for the weak of constitution.
Metro Manila. This riveting crime thriller follows Oscar, a recent emigrant to Manila who gets pulled into a harrowing world of corruption and violence when he takes a job as an armored car driver to support his family (in Tagalog w/ English subtitles). 109 IMDb 7.6 1 h 55 min 2013. 18+. International · Suspense · Drama · Action.
