Set on Christmas Day's eve in a predominantly Catholic neighborhood, Jeffrey Jeturian's Bisperas (Eve) details a family's return from the traditional panunuluyan, a re-enactment of Joseph and Mary's search for a place to stay involving the members of the parish, only to discover that their house has been robbed. As they account for what has been stolen from their belongings, long-kept secrets are uncovered, revealing the ironic dysfunctions of what seems to be a model middle-class Filipino family. The film is deceptively simple. It faithfully follows the dysfunctional family trope, with no sharp turns in the narrative, just incidents piling upon incidents until everything explodes predictably at the dinner table. It is shot with hardly any pretense for cinematic prettiness or flair, just...
- 7/31/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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