Waves
Written by Scott Curtis Graham
Directed by Don Gerardo Frasco
Philippines, 2015
In Don Gerardo Frasco’s Waves, the notion of a peaceful island spirals into a cacophony of frustration and despair when two old friends try to rekindle their love for one another. With every scene, new challenges surface for our main characters to confront within the confines of their crumbling haven. The triumph of Waves is Frasco’s ability to enrapture the trouble that exists in paradise. Sure, its Philippine environments look beautiful, but when propped up against the anguish of the story’s lies and mistrust, they take on the feel of an awkward, unreachable dream for our disillusioned secret lovers.
Its main characters are thinly sketched early on, yet details illuminate as their background unfolds throughout the course of the film. Here is a story about a Filipino man (Baron Geisler) and an American model (Ilona Struzik...
Written by Scott Curtis Graham
Directed by Don Gerardo Frasco
Philippines, 2015
In Don Gerardo Frasco’s Waves, the notion of a peaceful island spirals into a cacophony of frustration and despair when two old friends try to rekindle their love for one another. With every scene, new challenges surface for our main characters to confront within the confines of their crumbling haven. The triumph of Waves is Frasco’s ability to enrapture the trouble that exists in paradise. Sure, its Philippine environments look beautiful, but when propped up against the anguish of the story’s lies and mistrust, they take on the feel of an awkward, unreachable dream for our disillusioned secret lovers.
Its main characters are thinly sketched early on, yet details illuminate as their background unfolds throughout the course of the film. Here is a story about a Filipino man (Baron Geisler) and an American model (Ilona Struzik...
- 3/3/2015
- by Christopher Clemente
- SoundOnSight
Waves
Written by Scott Curtis Graham
Directed by Don Gerardo Frasco
Philippines | Vimeo, 2015
This debut film from filmmaker Don Gerardo Frasco is photographed grandly yet constructed intimately that is reminiscent of the work of Terrence Malick, but in a way that thankfully feels inspired rather than imitative. While the pacing and editing of the film flow with the cinematography in a free and poetic nature that has been canonized in the work of Malick, the film stands apart from Malick’s influence. The film follows Ross (Baron Geisler) and Sofia (Ilona Struzik), two friends who reconnect over the course of a few days and take a trip to a secluded island and attempt a failed romance.
There is an evident tenderness between the two characters that is subtly realized and emphatically felt by Baron Geisler and Ilona Struzik as the couple. Geisler plays Ross with a certain toughness that masks his battered soul,...
Written by Scott Curtis Graham
Directed by Don Gerardo Frasco
Philippines | Vimeo, 2015
This debut film from filmmaker Don Gerardo Frasco is photographed grandly yet constructed intimately that is reminiscent of the work of Terrence Malick, but in a way that thankfully feels inspired rather than imitative. While the pacing and editing of the film flow with the cinematography in a free and poetic nature that has been canonized in the work of Malick, the film stands apart from Malick’s influence. The film follows Ross (Baron Geisler) and Sofia (Ilona Struzik), two friends who reconnect over the course of a few days and take a trip to a secluded island and attempt a failed romance.
There is an evident tenderness between the two characters that is subtly realized and emphatically felt by Baron Geisler and Ilona Struzik as the couple. Geisler plays Ross with a certain toughness that masks his battered soul,...
- 2/24/2015
- by Dylan Griffin
- SoundOnSight
In Don Gerardo Frasco's Waves, a seemingly idyllic island paradise in the Philippines unexpectedly turns into a battleground of mixed emotions for two friends-turned-secret-lovers desperately trying to revive a brief yet intense love affair that, at first sight, clearly falls into the 'doomed from the start' category. With almost every line of dialogue comes a new and meaningful revelation, systematically magnifying all the challenges that the characters had and have to face on a daily basis.Apart from a few sequences that introduce and finish the story, the whole picture takes places in a luxurious-looking private island resort best saved for a truly special romantic getaway. The magnificent waterlogged panorama encompassed by a myriad of trees and rock cliffs pleasingly hints at a fairly tale culmination,...
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- 1/22/2015
- Screen Anarchy
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