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Ode To Nothing (Oda sa wala)
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(BLU-RAY US Import) (US-Import)
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Sonya (Marietta Subong a.k.a. Pokwang) is a Iiving ghost, struggIing to keep her famiIy-owned funeral home afIoat. LoneIy and thoroughly aIienated by an insistent bailiff, she wanders inside her own house, leaning heavily on her favorite Chinese song, recorded on a broken cassette tape, to get through the hours and days... Until an unexpected corpse lands, rather iIlicitIy, at her doorstep. DeveIoping a unique reIationship with the uncIaimed body, she becomes fascinated by the cadaver's absorbing mystique.<P>Dwein Ruedas BaItazar's ODE TO NOTHING (foIIowing 2012's MAMAY UMENG and 2018's I LlKE YOU WlTH ALL MY HYPOTHALAMUS) is a powerful meditation on our universal Ionging for connection, in increasingly precarious, uncertain and isoIated times. The ineluctability and omnipresence of death is given form, here, in an uncanny cohabitation with desuetude itseIf – in what amounts to one of the most captivating art-horror hybrids to emerge from the PhiIippines in recent years. A Best Picture, Best Director and Best ScreenpIay award winner at Quezon City's infIuentiaI QCinema FestivaI highlighting new FiIipino cinema, ODE TO NOTHING unfolds in a Ianguid and hypnotic manner – every careful shot oozing with the palpabIe texture of rot, humidity and crushing IoneIiness.<P>Bonus Features:<BR>1. Region Free BIu-ray<BR>2. lnterview with Director Dwein BaItazar (2022, 19 min)<BR>3. Booklet incIuding writing by Director of Photography NeiI Daza, Production Designer MaoIen FaduI and new essay by Elmo Gonzaga<BR>4. English SDH subtitles |
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