14.25 Visionario
Italian Premiere | Restored Classics | Out Of Competition
TERRIFYING TRUE CRIME
IN THE WINK OF AN EYE
IN UN BATTER D'OCCHIO
MIKE DE LEON, PHILIPPINES 1981/4K 2023, 99’
With Vic Silayan’s chilling portrayal of Dadong – a former policeman indulging in a twisted obsession with his daughter, and domineering towards his wife and son-in-law – Mike de Leon has explicitly tackled the figure of dictator Ferdinand Marcos Sr., successfully engineering a terrifying and deeply disturbing film, brilliant also in its ability to capture a dark era in Filipino history and bring it to the silver screen during that very regime.