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Few actresses can act both comical and serious sides of the same character.
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Breathtaking....; Amazing
Where to begin ? However, their father, who looks a good man, do not have stable job, if not minimal income which is hard to afford their life. Mother leaves her children whom she wants to embrace always, and works for them sacrificing everything.
Mother's love ends up with broken relationship. At first I was a bit skeptic, but man....what great acting!! Claudine did a great job as the snot nose brat of a daughter and Vilma was awesome as the loving, but misunderstood mother. Anak (or 'The Child' as it is known in the West) is an absolutely amazing movie, a movie so powerful that it deserves to be watched by everyone.
This movie was a good primer on the plight of overseas Filipino workers, though I'm sure many Filipinos have endured worse while working overseas.
I'd seen just one Philippine movie before "Anak," and I told the saleslady at the video store I got this film from to select a good movie for me instead of formulaic love stories and such.
In other, more conventional, 'touching' films I often feel left off with an awkward, almost embarrassed, feeling of having been tricked to tears by elementary storytelling mechanisms. Veteran local star Santos is in fine form, while Barretto lends impressive shading to what might have been a stock sexy “bad girl” role.
But the feeling of a natural, almost improvised acting in Anak, conveys everyday life as well as the intense moments with an exceptional credibility which makes the overall narrative so strong it should leave its audience feeling that this is one of the primary reasons for storytelling.
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A woman returns to the Philippines after working abroad to find that her family has fallen apart in her absence.
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Hindi kayang tumbasan ng pera. Total remittance from the OFWs, who send most of their earnings from such humiliating work, amounts nearly US$ 10B annually. She goads Josie with serial boyfriends and open hostility before running away, straight into drug-abusive squalor.
Limning complex emotions with subtlety and humor, pic resists melodrama until the dam abruptly bursts after 90 minutes; ill-judged pileup of crying scenes, plot crises, and more crying ensues.
A typical—but well-made—tear-jerker of a film, the narrative's impact can be felt intensely as it is presented very real and raw. I didn’t cry, I wept.
Just the amount of tears I have shed from its conventional family drama hints as to what makes it relatable on many levels. The Story is set around Josie and her family, Many years ago - Josie had to leave her family and become a domestic over-seas so she that she could provide money to support her family, when Josies husband dies, Josie returns to her family to take over her job as mother, but when she returns, her family is anything but loving and welcoming.
The acting in this movie is magnificent, I had never heard of Vilma Santos until I watched Anak, however after seeing it I had to rent out some of her other movies, the emotion shown by Vilma, and the other actors is amazing and at times you really can find yourself believing that this family is real.
The reality of OFWs is almost slavery exporting. Separation from loved ones, sacrifices and the complexity of family relations are key components of the narrative that, propelled by brilliant acting, drives this highly realistic and touching story forward.
And realism and emotions are clues to what makes Anak such a gripping tale.
In fact their house is large enough even in Japanese standard. Quintos’ fluid handling of potentially claustrophobic, mawkish material underplays script’s more obvious gambits until they overwhelm pic. Hanggang diyan na lang pagiging nanay ko.' Kasi kahit nanay ka nakakapagod din 'di ba?"
Still one of Star Cinema's best.
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Premiere
10 Mar 2001
- USASan Francisco Asian American Film Festival
16 Sep 2001
- JapanFukuoka International Film Festival
Theatrical
10 May 2000
- PhilippinesPG-13
12 Apr 2003
- JapanPG12
TV
23 May 2007
- JapanPG12
Japan
16 Sep 2001
- PremiereFukuoka International Film Festival
Philippines
USA
10 Mar 2001
- PremiereSan Francisco Asian American Film Festival
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