I'm unsurprised with the talk surrounding the Best Director gong given to Brillante Mendoza for "Kinatay". I have to see the film definitely, but the scorn and buzz that it created among press circles (at Cannes, at least) and web sites (at www.awardsdaily.com, in particular) can only give the movie the buzz it needs to become another international hit (in festivals, at least), just like Mendoza's recent Cannes entry "Serbis". This is the first major award for a Filipino movie in a prestigious filmfest (not counting Lav Diaz's Horizons Award for Venice last year, since it won in a parallel section, not main competition), and Filipinos should be proud. Criticism is relative; what is good to me may be bad to others (and vice-versa). But then, good buzz or bad buzz is still buzz. I wish the film and direk Dante the best. (I know it would not be his last trip to the Cannes podium.)
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