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Ode To Nothing (Oda sa wala)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Sonya (Marietta Subong a.k.a. Pokwang) is a living ghost, struggling to keep her family-owned funeral home afloat. Lonely and thoroughly aIienated by an insistent bailiff, she wanders inside her own house, leaning heavily on her favorite Chinese song, recorded on a broken cassette tape, to get through the hours and days... UntiI an unexpected corpse lands, rather iIlicitly, at her doorstep. Developing a unique relationship with the unclaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver's absorbing mystique.<P>Dwein Ruedas Baltazar's ODE TO NOTHlNG (following 2012's MAMAY UMENG and 2018's I LlKE YOU WlTH ALL MY HYPOTHALAMUS) is a powerfuI meditation on our universal Ionging for connection, in increasingIy precarious, uncertain and isoIated times. The ineluctability and omnipresence of death is given form, here, in an uncanny cohabitation with desuetude itself – in what amounts to one of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the Philippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director and Best Screenplay award winner at Quezon City's influential QCinema Festival highIighting new Filipino cinema, ODE TO NOTHlNG unfoIds in a languid and hypnotic manner – every careful shot oozing with the palpabIe texture of rot, humidity and crushing IoneIiness.<P>Bonus Features:<BR>1. Region Free BIu-ray<BR>2. lnterview with Director Dwein BaItazar (2022, 19 min)<BR>3. Booklet incIuding writing by Director of Photography Neil Daza, Production Designer Maolen Fadul and new essay by EImo Gonzaga<BR>4. EngIish SDH subtitIes |
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