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Perfumed Nightmare: Directed by Kidlat Tahimik. With Mang Fely, Dolores Santamaria, Georgette Baudry, Katrin Muller. A Filipino jeepney driver (Kidlat Tahimik) who idolizes America's space program comes to reject the rapid encroachment of technology.
- (897)
- Comedy, Drama
- Kidlat Tahimik
- 1979
Mababangong Bangungot or Perfumed Nightmare is a 1977 Filipino comedy-drama film starring, written and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, who also edited, co-shot, and produced it.
The movie focuses on the adventures of a Filipino jeepney driver who dreams of emigrating to America and becoming an astronaut there.
Feb 18, 2019 · The“Perfumed Nightmare” was his creative testing ground. In his memorable debut, Kidlat Tahimik drifted away from the established narrative conventions and combined a cinéma-vérité with fictionized sequences, a docudrama, semi-autobiographical elements, a fable, and a film essay.
Jun 28, 2018 · Produced and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, this brilliant semi-autobiographical fable tells the story of a young Filipino born in 1942 (during the Occupation), his awakening to, and reaction against, American cultural colonialism.
- 4 min
- Les Blank Films
Perfumed Nightmare Young Kidlat is a jeepney driver in the Philippines, but his dream is to leave his village and travel to Europe, the embodiment of the technological advancement he idolizes. Instead, he discovers inhumane modernity no better than what he left behind.
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Perfumed Nightmare. Directed by Kidlat Tahimik • 1977 • Philippines Starring Kidlat Tahimik, Mang Fely, Dolores Santamaria. Acclaimed by Werner Herzog as “one of the most original and poetic works of cinema made anywhere in the seventies,” this exhilaratingly imaginative DIY landmark of Filipino cinema stars director Kidlat Tahimik as a ...
