Melancholia (2008)
Melancholia (2008)
DVDRip | AVI | 704x400 | XviD @ ~1365 Kbps | 445 min | 5,07 Gb
Audio: Filipino MP3 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (hardcoded), Français (srt)
Genre: Drama
DVDRip | AVI | 704x400 | XviD @ ~1365 Kbps | 445 min | 5,07 Gb
Audio: Filipino MP3 @ 256 Kbps | Subs: English (hardcoded), Français (srt)
Genre: Drama
Director: Lav Diaz
Writer: Lav Diaz
Stars: Angeli Bayani, Perry Dizon, Roeder
Three friends struggle to make their way through a world blighted by a man-made catastrophe in this experimental drama from Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz. Alberta, Julian and Rina are three leftist activists whose worst fears about the future have become a reality when a skirmish leads to a global apocalypse. As the three wander the desolate countryside, each has a different perspective – Alberta searches for some sign of her husband, Julian is haunted by memories of the women he loves, and Rina has fallen into a deep depression. As the three friends wrestle with grief, loss and confusion, they began to exchange personalities and take on the attitudes of other people, sometimes drifting into a curious sort of gamesmanship. The three begin to lose their grip on reality as military factions battle for control of what's left of the world.
Lav Diaz's Melancholia is an eight-hour meditation of sorts on the maddening persistence of sadness in this world, can logically be divided into three parts and an epilogue. The first part details the experiences in Sagada of Julian (Perry Dizon), Alberta (Angeli Bayani) and Rina (Malaya Cruz) as they refashion themselves into different drastic identities as part of the radical process that Julian created in order for them to cope with the losses of their loved ones. The second part is set in Manila, with Julian and Alberta living their real lives and addressing the scenarios and situations that accompany their melancholic predicament. The third part is the prologue to Julian, Alberta and Rina's prolonged tale of sadness, where deep within the forests of Mindoro, a band of leftist fighters, which includes Alberta's husband Renato (Roeder Camanag), is struggling with the psychological and spiritual torture of both practical and existential defeat while being hunted down by military operatives.
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Melancholia (2008)
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