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Manila in the Claws of Light
Directed by
Lino Brocka
TV-14
1975
2h 7m
Drama
,
Mystery
7.8
100%
87%
7.2
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Júlio Madiaga, a 'provinciano', arrives in Manila to search for his beloved, Ligaya.
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Cast of Manila in the Claws of Light
Bembol Roco
Julio Madiaga
Hilda Koronel
Ligaya Paraiso
Lou Salvador Jr.
Atong
Tommy Abuel
Pol
Lily Gamboa Mendoza
Perla
Joonee Gamboa
Omeng
Pio De Castro III
Imo
Joe Jardi
Frank
Spanky Manikan
Gido
Danilo Posadas
Benny
Pancho Pelagio
Mr. Balajadia
Bobby Roldan
Call Boy
Jerry O'Hara
Call Boy
Rudy Hermano
Call Boy
Rikki Jimenez
Rikki
Chiqui Xerxes-Burgos
Cesar
Tommy Yap
Ah Tek
Juling Bagabaldo
Mrs. Cruz
Joe Gruta
Man
Nina Lorenzo
Haliparot
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Manila in the Claws of Light Ratings & Reviews
The Movie Buff
Paul Emmanuel Enicola
For Brocka, [the film] isn't mere melodrama-it's a searing indictment. Every institution, from labor to media to law enforcement, fails the characters. Their story isn't rare. It's ordinary. And that's what makes it devastating.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
It's a downbeat tale that Brocka keeps suspended between neo-realism and melodrama, never letting it get overwhelmed by either irredeemable bleakness or excess hand-wringing.
IONCINEMA.com
Nicholas Bell
A significant pillar of Filipino cinema at last recuperated, Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light is a profoundly sympathetic melodrama cloaked in gritty neo-realism.
Asian Movie Pulse
Panos Kotzathanasis
Brocka's look is quite accusatory, with him blaming the "capital" for exploiting the poor and the authorities for cooperating fully with the rich. Inevitably, this lack of any kind of prosperity and providence also leads to moral decay,
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
It is a potent and provocative examination of poverty's ravaging mental and physical toll not just on people, but on a city and a society that continues to favor elites at the expense of the poor.
PopMatters
Chadwick Jenkins
A sad but beguiling film, Manila offers many more scenes that might inspire philosophical and political reflection than the few I was able to discuss here.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The film moves to the alternating beats created by its characters' hopes and their miseries, by their talk of a different kind of future and the crushing reality of their present circumstances.
Village Voice
Inkoo Kang
The intimate proletarian melodrama The Claws of Light succeeds where so many political allegories fail: With ethical and emotional sophistication, it dramatizes the suffering of the disadvantaged with characters that feel individual yet archetypal.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The vicious depredations of the urban jungle have rarely been bared with such fierce clarity as in this 1975 melodrama, directed by Lino Brocka.
Slant Magazine
Alan Jones
For Brocka and his characters, Manila is a libertarian dystopia, where poverty breeds its own predators and victims as the city's poor grasp for the little wealth that hasn't yet been distributed.
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