Batch '81
Mike De Leon
- 1982
- Philippines
- Drama
- 1h40mn
- Original version with French subtitles
- Color
French premiere
New 4K restoration
In order to fit in socially and make friends, a zoology student joins a student fraternity. This is the story of his initiation, told in the first person.
Originally, De Leon wanted to make a commercial teen movie, surfing on the box office success of student chronicles. His interest soon veered towards student fraternities and their fascist mechanics, worthy of Nazi youth training camps: challenges, humiliations, torture, heady hymns, leading to self annihilation into a unique collective line of thought. To be and no longer to be. Absolutely terrifying from start to finish, like a requiem for individualism, outstanding by the force of its allegories, Batch’81 glues viewers to their seats. With an assumed reference, as soon as the first ironically joyous electronic notes ring out, to Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange.
Credits
- With : Mark Gil, Sandy Andolong, Ward Luarca, Noël Trinidad...
- Screenplay : Doy Del Mundo, Raquel N. Villavicencio, Mike De Leon
- Photography : Rody Lacap
- Editing : Jess Navarro
- Music by : Lorrie Illustre
- Production : Marichu Maceda
