Film Information
Year: 2022
Duration: 91'
Language: VOSC
Genre: Drama
Synopsis
In downtown Manila, post-COVID-19 lockdown, restaurant sittings are restricted to 90 minutes. This is the setting for this engrossing two-hander in which Eric, a gay university professor grieving the loss of his long-term partner, meets Lance, an ambitious young literature student. Over the course of their meal, the men’s pleasant conversation becomes a dangerous game of cat and mouse in which startling revelations are made about both of them.
Director
JUN ROBLES LANA was born on October 10, 1972 in Makati City, Philippines. He is a graduate of the University of Santo Tomas with a degree in Communication Arts. He is the youngest Filipino to be inducted in the Palanca Literary Awards (Philippine’s Pulitzer Prize) Hall of Fame. His debut screenplay Sa Pusod Ng Dagat (In the Navel of The Sea) directed by his mentor Marilou Diaz-Abaya premiered at the 1998 Berlin International Film Festival and also won him the Best Screenplay Award from the 1998 Brussels Independent Film Festival. His first indie film, Bwakaw, won several international awards and was screened at Toronto, New York and Tokyo film festivals and was the Philippines’ Oscar entry for Best Foreign Film in 2012. Barber’s Tales won four awards including the award for Best HAF Project at the 2013 Hong Kong Asia Film Financing Forum and Best Director from the Madrid International Film Festival. His latest work, About Us but not About Us (2022), has obtained ten awards at the Metro Manila Summer Film Festival, including Best Film, Best Screenplay and Best Director.
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