‘Lola’ wins Best Film at Rome Asian filmfest
Posted By www.BoyAbunda.net on July 19, 2010
MANILA, Philippines – Brillante Mendoza’s “Lola” won Best Film anew this time at the 8th edition of the Asian Film Festival held in Rome late last week.
In a text message from Mendoza, he said that he is once again proud and happy about the Philippines as he competed in the world famous festival.
“This is not only a birthday gift for me but most especially, to the glory of the Philippines,” Mendoza beamed.
“Lola” was shown on July 14 side by side with another Mendoza’s award-winning work, “Kinatay (The Execution of P)” that won him the Best Director of the 2009 Cannes International Film Festival.
A phalanx of Asian films, mostly from awarded filmmakers, were exhibited in the international film event. Among those screened were South Korea’s Park Chan-Wook’s “Thirst,” Hong Kong’s Stanley Kwan’s “Rogue” and “Women,” Vietnam’s Dang Nhat Mihn’s “Don’t Bury,” Taiwan’s Ann Hui’s “Night and Fog,” Japan’s Matsumoto Hitoshi’s “Symbol,” the last 3 were among the 17 entries which competed against “Lola.”
Mendoza’s citation reads as follows: “For the extraordinary narrative grace which has conjugate an almost documentary glance about the dignity of the poorer classes’ life, to a subtle ability to create characters made of a huge humanity. Mendoza does that with an incredible directorial skill in the use of space, time and light, that are perfectly inherent to a story where lightness and drama are combined together, to return us a profound reflection on the meaning of the bitter-sweet life.”
Brillante will celebrate his natal day on July 30.
-Report by Boy Villasanta, abs-cbnNEWS.com
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