The Girlfriend Experience: Of sexual obsession and audience appeal

27 Saturday Feb 2016

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Barbara Ruaro, comedy, coming-of-age, film review, LGBT, MAPUA, Marco Gatchalian, movie revew, obsession, RJ Salvador, sex, SIFFMP, Singkuwento International Film Festival, The Girlfriend Experience, Transgender

By Heinrich Domingo

A teenage boy with raging testosterone meets a sexy new housemate. He discovers that she is a prostitute who offers her service for P12,000.00 for 12 hours. There begins his quest towards achieving a paid girlfriend experience. He sold all his possessions in an effort to hire the girl. But in the end, a revelation would later make him doubt his decision. Is she truly worth his effort?

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Reyna Christina (Queen Christina): Of femininity and beauty

26 Friday Feb 2016

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action film, comedy, coming-of-age, feminism, film review, independent film, movie revew, Pia Dimagiba, Santacruzan, short film, SIFFMP, Singkuwento International Film Festival, UP Diliman

By: Heinrich Domingo

A prepubescent girl enters the ‘women’ club as she joins the annual Santacruzan (May Festival). Her mother introduces her into a Filipino long-standing tradition that weirdly dresses girls as Virgin Mary and parades them on the streets like beauty contestants. She then learns that the world measures women based on the color of their skin and the size of their breasts. And although she resists at first and affirms her own understanding of beauty, she realizes that femininity is power. It is a gift and she is precious for being a recipient of it.

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