Ang pagdadalag ni Maximo Oliveros is currently showing in Singapore theatres now. It’s about a 12-year-old gay who comes from a criminal family falls in love with a handsome policeman.
 I personally haven’t watched this movie but it has a 7.6/10 rating in IMDB and has a couple of international awards that makes it worth checking out.Â
 Here’s more info from the Cathay Cineplexes website:
Sphere: Related ContentRating: NC16
Consumer Advice: Content Not Suitable For Children Under 16
Genre:Drama-Comedy
Language: Tagalog with English subtitles/ Comedy
Director: Auraeus SolitoMaxi, is youngest child of widower and like nearly everyone in their Manila slum, survive outside of the legal economic grid by selling stolen cell phones, placing bets, etc. Occasionally teased but mostly accepted as a girl in a boy’s body, super-femme Maxi dropped out of school to be surrogate “wife,” cooking, cleaning and fussing over everyone. He falls in love with handsome policeman Victor, who takes him under his wing platonically, though vibe is near-romantic at times. When Maxi’s friend Boy kills a student during a bungled robbery, however, Maxi is caught between protecting his kin and Victor.
Nominee for Grand Jury Prize (World Cinema Drama), Sundance Film Festival 2006
WINNER of KinderFest, Glass Bear (Special Mention), Teddy Award, Berlin Film Festival 2006
WINNER Best Film, Asian Festival First FIlms 2005
2 responses so far ↓
1 josezf sanz // Mar 11, 2008 at 9:37 pm
I personally love this film..acting is superb specially Nathan whose very natural..it depicts everything that happens for real..in our daily lives…i love the scene where victor is putting on his undies and maxi is drooly watching ah that’s very gay!!!!and when maxi stole a kiss form him, the whistle scene when somehow it was depicted as Victor was asking forgiveness from maxi…I believe that Victor on that scene just misses maxi being sweet,and caring he never did fell for Maxi I would like to stress that(that’s my analogy)..he just felt free from maxi’s love , free form everything that’s affects him…and the last scene wherein Victor surely waits for maxi to stop and say hi to him..but the latter ignores him,not angry with him, coz Maxi never hated him..but simply shows that Maxi is over with his infatuation with him that he has other big things to consider and to work on rather that being infatuated with Victor..over-all the film is uniquely genuine, fresh, good acting not over rated…
2 Ms. Tsiken // Mar 23, 2008 at 2:43 pm
what I liked about the movie is it’s very different from the regular tagalog movies. I like the way the story was told and presented.
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