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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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