tMF Controversial: Is the Filipino film Kinatay the worst film ever shown @Cannes?
So? Who really cares about a film from a third-world country like the Phillipines? Oh, and before you asked me what that film is, it’s called Kinatay from Filipino director Brilliante Mendoza. I know for a fact that there are a number of brilliant and critically-acclaimed movies from the Philippines and that some of them have been shown in international film festivals and received awards and acclaims. – – – – – – “Worst Film” Shown in Cannes Official Competition: Allison Willmore wrote on her blog and says: Roger Ebert called “Kinatay” the new “worst film in the history of the Cannes Film Festival,” succeeding the original cut of a certain road/blowjob feature. That’s a bit strong. Director Brillante Mendoza is just convinced that ideas must equal difficulty — and so, with last year’s “Serbis,” the theater itself had to be the main character, the teeming human dramas it sheltered deliberately, coyly captured only in oblique fragments. With “Kinatay,” the problem is more that the ideas
