Black
(Itim)
Mike De Leon
- 1976
- Philippines
- Drama
- 1h56mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
New 4K restoration
Returning to the province where his father lives, Jun, a young photographer, meets Teresa, a young woman haunted by her sister’s disappearance and her mysteries. As Teresa behaves more and more oddly, their relationship drives them on the traces of a painful past...
This encounter between two tormented souls, on a voyage towards a truth that lies beyond the realm of the living, is foremost a magnificent declaration of love from de Leon to Antonioni, Roeg and Clayton. In a bewitching syncretism, where European influences blend naturally in the Filipino frame - and in a world of imagination - where mysticism and christianism already live together. Itim shines with that singular harmony of softness and fear, of magic realism and spectral fantasy. He lets the darkness invade the set to the point where it becomes a character in itself.
Credits
- With : Tommy Abuel, Charo Santos, Mario Montenegro...
- Screenplay : Doy del Mundo, Gil Quinto
- Photography : Ely Cruz, Rody Lacap
- Editing : Ike Jarlego Jr.
- Music by : Max Jocson
- Production : Severino Manotok
