Ian Lomongo

The director represents a very personal coming-to-terms with his father, a publisher, who left the family and started another, having three children with a second wife. The father founded Listen-N-Learn Enterprises in the 1980s, publishing floods of educational and self-help textbooks, but went bankrupt 20 years later. His first, semi-abandoned family had to move from its mansion into cramped quarters in Sikatuna, piled high with unsold stock. (viff.org)

What can a family do if someone disappears in a dictatorship? You can't go to the police for help or information. Many families were affected in this way by the cruelty of the Marcos dictatorship (1972-1986). The film shows one of them as an example of paradise lost. (imdb)

Boy meets girl. But no, it's not about that or the giddiness of a new romance. It's about untimely death (no one's sure of anything these days), true love, soul mates. It's about the gun and the rose. Genre bending. Heart breaking. An avalanche of colors. Deadpan romance. Lips syncing, singing. What's love got to do with it? Everyone has a broken heart. (imdb)