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Service
- Director: Brillante Mendoza
- Writer: Armando Lao; Boots Agbayani Pastor
- Producer: Didier Costet; Antonio del Rosario
CGiii Comment
Set in and around the filthiest porn cinema you would never want to visit...located on a very noisy street...where errant heterosexual life is played out against that of homosexual promiscuity.
Distasteful...it certainly is...for a multitude of reason.
The background noise drowns out most of the dialogue. The camera is forever following characters upstairs, downstairs, through dark corridors - for no apparent reason other than to kill time...
Plotless and episodic, it could, quite easily, be confused with an observational documentary - complete with irrelevance and unnecessary porn - the film itself is too crude to even consider the tiresome debate of porn versus art...again, cheap 'actors' have been exploited...
It won praise at Cannes...it will leave you feeling rather grubby.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
A drama that follows the travails of the Pineda family in the Filipino city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and bothersome skin irritations are all part of their daily challenges, but the real "star" of the show is an enormous, dilapidated movie theater that doubles as family business and living space. At one time a prestige establishment, the theater now runs porn double bills and serves as a meeting ground for hustlers of every conceivable persuasion. The film captures the sordid, fetid atmosphere, interweaving various family subplots with the comings and goings of customers, thieves and even a runaway goat while enveloping the viewer in a maelstrom of sound, noise and continuous motion.
Cast & Characters
Gina Pareno as Nanay Flor;
Jacklyn Jose as Nayda;
Julio Diaz as Lando;
Coco Martin as Alan;
Kristoffer King as Ronald;
Dan Alvaro as Jerome;
Mercedes Cabral as Merly;
Roxanne Jordan as Jewel;
Dido De La Paz as Atty. Quintana;
Buddy Caramat as Tonette;
Bobby Jerome Go as Jonas;
Jemmalyn Galicia as Susan;
Julia Taylor as Cross Dresser;
Nico Taverna as Santy;
Aaron Christian Rivera as Ricky