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   • 6.2/10 6.2/10 IMDb
   • 80% 80% Rotten Tomatoes

   Critics consensus This darkly comic family drama finds ways of being viscerally graphic and intellectually stimulating at the same time. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › serbis-2009Serbis movie review & film summary (2009) | Roger Ebert

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   Mar 18, 2009 · In a film so immersed in sex, there is little actual sex. "Serbis" (the word means "service") is about a closed world in which sex is a commodity, and it's a buyer's market. Sexual encounters are hurried, hidden and never lingered on by the camera of director Brillante Mendoza, who is more absorbed by faces, routine, work and the passage of ...

2. www.nytimes.com › 2009/01/30 › moviesA Fractured Family in a Crumbling World - The New York Times

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   Jan 29, 2009 · NYT Critic’s Pick. Directed by Brillante Mendoza. Drama, Romance. Not Rated. 1h 27m. By Manohla Dargis. Jan. 29, 2009. Gentle, bawdy and at times rambunctiously, ticklishly rude, the Filipino movie...

   • Director: Brillante Mendoza

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4. www.npr.org › templates › storyMovie Review: 'Serbis' - A Family's Affairs, In A Venue Full ...

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   Jan 29, 2009 · January 29, 20095:01 PM ET. By. Mark Jenkins. Enlarge this image. Adult Education: The teenage Jewel (Roxanna Jordan) lives and works at her family's theater, where what's onscreen is no more lurid...

5. www.sfgate.com › movies › articleMovie review: 'Serbis' examines sex, regret - SFGATE

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   Feb 20, 2009 · (R. 93 minutes. At the Lumiere, San Francisco.) Tennessee Williams, whose plays spotlight lives on the verge of combustion, would have loved "Serbis" - not just because it dissects a sprawling...

6. People also ask

   Is Serbis a melodrama?

   • Melodrama takes center stage in Serbis, Brillante Mendoza's gritty but warm portrait of a struggling Filipino family. Their adult-movie house might be sinking, but their lives are overflowing.

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   Is 'Serbis' a documentary?

   • "Serbis" has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what "Serbis" does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined. -- Advisory: Strong language and multiple scenes of sexual activity.

   Movie review: 'Serbis' examines sex, regret - SFGATE

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   Is Serbis more confrontational than slingshot?

   • Shown at the Cannes and New York film festivals, Serbis is actually less confrontational than Mendoza's previous movie, Slingshot, which was set in a Filipino shantytown. Both films are handheld-camera tours of teeming subcultures, characterized by vigor, candor and a mischievous pleasure in lurid details.

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7. www.hollywoodreporter.com › movies › movie-reviewsFilm Review: ‘Serbis’ – The Hollywood Reporter

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   May 21, 2008 · Film Review: ‘Serbis’. Taking place mostly in a porno theater ironically, yet fittingly, named Family, "Serbis" is part homage to cinema, part intimate domestic drama that vividly details...

8. www.rottentomatoes.com › m › serbisSerbis - Movie Reviews | Rotten Tomatoes

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   A scraggly, messy, often aimless, and yet consistently amusing and engaging work of black comedy-cum-social-realism. Full Review | Jan 30, 2009. Rotten Tomatoes, home of the Tomatometer, is the...

9. www.timeout.com › movies › serbisSerbis , directed by Brillante Mendoza | Film review - Time Out

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   Oct 1, 2008 · Screenwriter: Armando Lao. Cast: Gina Pareño. Jacklyn Jose. Roxanne Jordan. Coco Martin. Julio Diaz. Kristofer King. An email you’ll actually love. The most impressive aspect of Mendoza’s seventh...