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Manila in the Claws of Light
Directed by
Lino Brocka
TV-14
1975
2h 7m
Drama
,
Mystery
7.8
100%
86%
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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
Mely Mallari
Shopkeeper
Fred Capulong
Policeman
Orlando Nadres
Discotheque Owner
Estrella Kuenzler
Nanay
Edwin O'Hara
Mang Kadyo
Lorli Villanueva
Woman in Rizal Park
Mario O'Hara
Activist Leader
Sibyl Santiago
Girl in the Plaza (uncredited)
Edipolo Erosido
Eddie
Purita Yap
Nanay
Josephine Gutierrez
Ligaya's Brother
Gina Zegui
Ligaya's Brother
Ronnie Magalong
Ligaya's Brother
Anna Marie Nicolas
Young Ligaya
Victor Diendo
Young Julio
Abelardo Reyes
Father
Julie de Guzman
Asawa
Brenda Fajardo
Woman
Cita Javellana
Bumibili
Ellen Cacho
Command
Sabrina
Sabrina
Pitay
Pitay
Veronica
Veronica
Jun Macapinlac
Bakla
Ricardo de Guzman
Discotheque Customer
Socrates B. Jose
Discotheque Customer
Greg Llenado
Discotheque Customer
Arturo Soquerata
Isnatser
Jojo Abella
Bobby
Manila in the Claws of Light Ratings & Reviews
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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