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Category / De Leon, Mike

April 18, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Sister Stella L. (1984)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1984, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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Nuns join the local workersโ€™ strike in De Leonโ€™s most explicitly political work about the oppression of the working-class by brutal capitalists, shot with a universal audience in mind who are aligned with its fervent message of solidarity.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 14, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Rites of May, The (1976)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1976, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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Quite a strong debut feature from De Leon as he explores the genre of horror in a disquieting atmospheric way while using the story of loss, fateful connection and religious rites to make implicit links with the trauma caused by the toxic political patriarchy.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 9, 2023April 9, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Will Your Heart Beat Faster? (1980)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1980, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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De Leonโ€™s madcap comedy is a delirious genre-bending piece that sees Japanese yakuza and Chinese gangsters cross paths with a group of Filipino youth caught up in a drug syndicate.

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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April 5, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Moments in a Stolen Dream (1977)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1977, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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De Leon doesnโ€™t hide his unabashedly dreamy approach to the coming-of-age romantic drama, as a college student becomes smitten by a woman, changing each otherโ€™s outlook in life.ย 

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Rating: 3.5 out of 5.

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March 30, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Third World Hero (1999)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1999, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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A docu-fiction that explores the process of historyโ€™s becoming as De Leon boldly if cheekily subjects his countryโ€™s anti-colonialist national hero, Jose Rizal, to an artistic interrogation, yielding interesting takeaways on artโ€™s discourse with the past.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 21, 2023March 21, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Kisapmata (1981)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1981, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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A young woman gets married but her authoritarian father refuses to let her out of his sight in this grim and unnerving domestic drama with elements of horror, directed with vehemence by the great Mike De Leon. 

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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March 17, 2020April 17, 2023 by Eternality Tan

Batch ’81 (1982)

  • De Leon, Mike
  • 1982, Mike De Leon, Philippines
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An explicit allegory of Marcosโ€™ problematic dictatorship through the story of a group of boys hoping to be initiated into a notorious college fraternity.

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Rating: 4 out of 5.

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