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2019

2h 6m

Drama

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Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and beats Joy brutally. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police post to finally get him sent to jail. Joy learns that justice takes time at best and is impossible to get at worst. Not without reason, she feels that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat...

Steve Rose

Guardian

Tracks a case of domestic abuse with such conviction, it is often easy to forget it's staged drama rather than documentary.

Rated: 4/5

Mar 10, 2021

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Leila Latif

Little White Lies

The world is a nightmare but nightmares make great films.

Rated: 4/5

Feb 26, 2021

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Boyd van Hoeij

The Hollywood Reporter

What is almost entirely missing is any sense of urgency or character.

Aug 29, 2019

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Hugues Porquier

Battle Royale With Cheese

With his film, Raymund Ribay Gutierrez tries to alert us to the hardships that a woman must endure in order to make her voice heard in the Philippines

Jul 11, 2021

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Tom Birchenough

The Arts Desk

The enduring presence in the film, which won the Horizons Special Jury Prize at Venice last year, is [Max] Eigenmann, her face speaking powerfully in its silent pain, one nevertheless coupled with a sense of endurance.

Rated: 4/5

Apr 2, 2021

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Luke Foulder-Hughes

Battle Royale With Cheese

Raymund Ribay Gutierrez tries to alert us to the hardships that a woman must endure in order to make her voice heard in the Philippines.

Mar 23, 2021

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Synopsis

Joy and her six-year-old daughter Angel live in Manila, with her husband, Dante, a small-time criminal. As so often in the past, Dante comes home drunk at night and beats Joy brutally. This time, he also hurts Angel. Joy grabs her daughter and flees to the local police post to finally get him sent to jail. Joy learns that justice takes time at best and is impossible to get at worst. Not without reason, she feels that she and her daughter are increasingly under threat...

Director: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Producer: Brillante Mendoza, Nicolas Brigaud-Robert, Jean-Christophe Simon, Dan Wechsler
Screenwriter: Raymund Ribay Gutierrez
Genre: Drama
Original Language: English
Runtime: 2h 6m