This year I managed to watch 4 films from this year's Pelicula offerings. I was able to watch Colgados de un Sueno first (my previous post) then I went on to watch 3 more films which I'll talk about here in this post.
Tuesday, I was able to see La Ultima Pelicula a film by Raya Martin. Hipster Crowd alert! Going up the escalator to the Greenbelt 3 Cinema level, I already saw a familiar face but I couldn't put a name to it. We almost made it to the Cervantes table in front of the entrance about the same time. I saw Raya Martin (I knew his face because I've been following his career and also recently followed him on instagram) talking to the head of Cervantes Manila and immediately introduced the guy I was tailing at the escalators. I heard him say that he teaches Politics and History at University then it dawned on me that he must be Leloy Claudio, famous for challenging Tito Sotto on a debate when the whole plagiarism debacle was going on. Raya (first name basis ito feeling close) went to thank several people involved in making the film before the film started. Then I saw the most amazing person, Armi Millare, the vocalist of Up Dharma Down, with Kawayan de Guia. I was screaming inside!!! I wanted to approach her and tell her how much I love her and her band pero tinamaan ako ng hiya, wrong timing as always. I contend with the knowledge that I was once seated 2 rows behind her inside the cinema. The movie was...weird. I have no other words to describe it. It was just wasn't for me, it's beyond my comprehension. It's hard to say something about that which I don't understand.
The next movie I saw was Promocion Fantasma, the lead actor was familiar but I couldn't recall from which movie. I was itching to google the film right then and there but I resisted and saved it for an idle moment at the office the next day. Turns out the lead actor's name is Raul Arevalo and I was right, he was also in Primos and Gordos both films I saw from previous Pelicula Pelikula's. The movie was a teenage comedy, it was very light and funny and I would very much encourage anyone to watch it. I had a blast watching this movie! Watch the trailer here:
Finally, the last movie I saw was Samurai. Nung una akala ko it was one of those foreign (meaning other than Spanish) movies that were made by a Spanish director just like what they showed last year with Buried (Ryan Reynolds) and a Colossus of Rhodes yun pala the movie was shot in Argentina and it had bits spoken in Spanish and Nihongo. The movie was about a family that moved to Argentina after the emperor abolished the samurai class, the plot is largely about the grandson we set off on a journey to find Saigo, a good friend of his dead grandfather. I didn't pay much attention to movie sad to say, my mind was wandering off outside trying to figure out how I was gonna get home because it was raining like hell outside.
Honestly, I feel like the movies this year are not as strong as previous years lalo na last year when they had the likes of Grupo 7, Pan Negre, No Habra Paz Para Los Malvados and Lo Mejor de Eva but still I'm grateful for the chance to see Spanish films here in Manila. I hope one day I'll find time to study Spanish!
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