Director Brillante Mendoza, actress Mercedes Cabral, actor Coco Martin, actress Maria Isabel Lopez and producers Ferdinand Lapuz and Didier Costet attended the Kinatay Premiere at the Palais Des Festivals during the 62nd International Cannes Film Festival on May 17, 2009 in Cannes, France
The film "Kinatay" makes us Filipino proud. Brillante Mendoza is the first Filipino to win Best director at Cannes for full-length film. He actually made his debut at Cannes with "Serbis" last year, 2008, which was also in competition.
"Kinatay" is about the grisly fate of a kidnap-rape victim (played by Maria Isabel Lopez), who is beaten up before she is murdered and hacked to pieces. And Mercedes Cabral played the wife of Coco Martin in the movie.
Read more on how the film was received. We need to see this film first before we decide on whether to praise it.
ReplyDeletehttp://www.michaelmirasol.com/flipcritic/2009/05/kinatay-and-filipino-pride.html
Yes, first of all. I don't praise the film. I simply praise the director who won the competition. This is it.
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