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Kinatay (transl. Butchered or English: The Execution of P) is a 2009 thriller film directed by Brillante Mendoza and written by Armando Lao. The story is centered on a criminology student (Coco Martin) who accidentally joins a syndicate to make enough money for his family, and gets involved in murder and dismembering of an erring drug dealer.
Sep 18, 2009 · The first part is vibrant and engaging: we follow young police cadet Peping (Martin) and his girlfriend Cecille (Cabral) as they travel through Manila to attend their wedding with a handful of ...
Chris Chang Film Comment Magazine Wild sound, aided by the spot-on punctuation of the score, turns the two-dimensional, often murky rectangle of the theater screen into a seemingly boundless ...
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Kinatay is a 2009 thriller film directed by Brillante Mendoza and written by Armando Lao. The story is centered on a criminology student who accidentally joins a syndicate...
Kinatay. Peping, a criminology student, is recruited by his schoolmate, Abyong, to work as a part-time errand boy for a local syndicate that collects protection fees from various businesses in Manila.
Feb 2, 2013 · In Competition in the 62nd Cannes International Film Festival, 2009, Kinatay by Brillante Mendoza, winner of the Best Director Award.
Kinatay aka "Butchered" (literally translated) is deeply personal filmmaking and the everyday life of the Filipino streets and slums permeated through an astonishingly naturalistic lens, interactions and performances derived from real life itself brutally contrasted by the dissonance of a very detailed, slow descent into the criminal underworld ...
