Probably the most interesting prospect of Filipino cinema, Mikhail Red, once more, presents his social comments through a genre packaging, in a crime thriller taking place in Manila, with the war on drugs of President Duterte providing the base.
Neomanila is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
Neomanila is screening at the 17th New York Asian Film Festival
In this setting, we meet the film’s main hero, Toto, an orphan who sleeps on the streets and is trying to find a man that will allow his brother, Kiko, to be released from prison, or at least to find money to make his bail. Toto has a girlfriend, but her brother, Dugo, occasionally gives him a hard time. When tragedy hits him even harder, Toto does not find any reason not to join a duo of killers for hire working for a man named Sarge, Irma and Raul, with the former eventually taking him to live in her house.
- 7/7/2018
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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