Oscar (Jake Macapagal), Mai (Althea Vega) and Angel (Erin Panlilio) in Metro Manila - ' I wanted us to have empathy with them and understand the plight of their journey'. Metro Manila - a thriller about a family trying to survive on the breadline in the Phillippines - was the big winner at this year's British Independent Film Awards, picking up the trophies for Best Film, Best Director for Sean Ellis and Best Achievement in Production (you can read what Ellis told us earlier this year about the film here). For Those In Peril helmer Paul Wright was named Best Debut Director.
Lindsay Duncan was named Best Actress for her role as one half of a troubled married couple in Le Weekend, while James McAvoy was named Best Actor for his role as a damaged policeman in the big screen adapation of Filth.
Imogen Poots was named Best Supporting Actress...
Lindsay Duncan was named Best Actress for her role as one half of a troubled married couple in Le Weekend, while James McAvoy was named Best Actor for his role as a damaged policeman in the big screen adapation of Filth.
Imogen Poots was named Best Supporting Actress...
- 12/9/2013
- by Amber Wilkinson
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Sean Ellis’ Metro Manila is, so far, most likely to snap up a distribution deal. It’s a thriller in the same vein as City of God; a faux-gritty depiction of indigent struggle that can’t help but give way to generic signposting and neat resolutions. A passable genre entry professing to be something more, the film takes matters seriously enough to be considered as a critique on exploitation and corruption, though its priority is to simply entertain.
The film dives headfirst into its conceit in the opening minutes. Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal) and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) promptly decide they’ve had quite enough of poverty-stricken existence in the Philippine mountains, and set forth with their two children to Metro Manila in the hopes of starting anew. What awaits them there is a less-than-idyllic arrangement; Ramirez joins an armoured truck company and naively walks into a setup with violent repercussions,...
The film dives headfirst into its conceit in the opening minutes. Oscar Ramirez (Jake Macapagal) and his wife Mai (Althea Vega) promptly decide they’ve had quite enough of poverty-stricken existence in the Philippine mountains, and set forth with their two children to Metro Manila in the hopes of starting anew. What awaits them there is a less-than-idyllic arrangement; Ramirez joins an armoured truck company and naively walks into a setup with violent repercussions,...
- 4/26/2013
- by Ed Doyle
- SoundOnSight
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