The Bet Collector

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The Bet Collector

2006

1h 40m

Drama

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A woman (Gina Pareño) works for an illegal numbers game in the slums of the Philippines.

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Manohla Dargis

New York Times

01/10/2008

2.5/5

Much like man's best friend, the rough-hewn Filipino movie The Bet Collector chases its protagonist from step to step, misery to misery, all but nipping at her heels.

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Aaron Hillis

Village Voice

01/08/2008

More ethnologically remarkable than particularly well-made.

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Russell Edwards

Variety

10/16/2006

While thesp Gina Pareno gives 200% to the titular role, the yarn's meandering tendencies will erode sympathies well before the tacked-on finale arrives.

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Panos Kotzathanasis

Asian Movie Pulse

04/30/2023

6.5

“Bet Collector” is an excellent movie that works well as both a drama and a documentary-like presentation of the particular type of life, through a style Brillante Mendoza repeatedly implemented on his most successful movies.

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09/08/2012

This movie is very good. Gina Pareno is very good. The writer of the story is most of all brilliant. It is really about two 'collectors' traversing one neighborhood, 1. Amy, the bet collector and 2. Grim Reaper, the soul collector. The two collectors weren't yet meeting at first but somehow already knew about each other, and were perhaps observing each other's movements. The ending in its subtlety is so good it made the two finally come across each other with great impact, that only viewers who are numb (or dumb) wouldn't get affected and realize the movie's message, that Death when it awakens us we become Life. I could imagine what happened to Amy afterwards, life to her wouldn't have been the same anymore.

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02/22/2010

Though it seems caged in darkness, Kubrador is a film about hope and despair. And Jeffrey Jeturian must be praised for letting the audience know that we are all similar to his anti-heroine (an outstanding Gina Pareno). We do bad things but we are still good. An amazing cinematography makes the film work but the performance of Ms. Gina Pareno in this drama is one of the best in years.

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08/25/2007

Good news for the Philippines. 2006 Cinemanila Best Picture [b]KUBRADOR [/b]won the Critic's Prize in the recently concluded Brisbane International Film Festival. This is the 10th best film recognition for the Jeffrey Jeturian masterpiece. [b]Kubrador [/b]is a film about a "jueteng" (an illegal number game) collector. As she goes around the tight streets of Manila, she meets the bettors who desperately put all their hopes into jueteng, wishing that it will bring them out of poverty. Every bettor has a story...and the collector, played by Gina Pareno, is a witness to all of these. After earning money through their hopelessness, she realizes in the end that she herself was hopeless. Visit [url="http://cinemanyak.blogspot.com/"]http://cinemanyak.blogspot.com[/url] for more art film reviews and news.

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Synopsis

A woman (Gina Pareño) works for an illegal numbers game in the slums of the Philippines.

Director: Jeffrey Jeturian
Production Co: MLR Films Inc.
Genre: Drama
Original Language: Filipino
Release Date (Streaming): Nov 5, 2016
Runtime: 1h 40m

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