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The Woman Who Left
Directed by
Lav Diaz
TV-MA
2016
3h 49m
Drama
7.1
80%
80%
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After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover.
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Cast of The Woman Who Left
Charo Santos
Horacia Somorostro / Renata
John Lloyd Cruz
Hollanda
Michael De Mesa
Rodrigo Trinidad
Nonie Buencamino
Magbabalot
Shamaine Buencamino
Petra
Mae Paner
Warden
Mayen Estanero
Nena
Marjorie Lorico
Minerva
Lao Rodriguez
Father
Kakai Bautista
Dading
Jo-Ann Requiestas
Taba
Jean Judith Javier
Mameng
Daniel Palisa
Harry
Lav Diaz
Director / Writer / Producer
Ronald Arguelles
Producer
Kristine Kintana
Producer
The Woman Who Left Ratings & Reviews
Film Threat
Filipe Freitas
Simultaneously bleak and illuminated, The Woman Who Left is not just about revenge, moral integrity, and opportunity. It's about life...a life you didn't choose to live but you are compelled to.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The pace is an anti-ornamental affectation that artificially distends an hour's worth of action.
Spirituality & Practice
Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
A intense morality tale about the resilience of a good-hearted woman.
TheWrap
Dave White
Diaz has made an epic-length small film about the powerless, one full of moral urgency that he chooses to elongate and slow down to a crawl. It's a quiet consideration of grief and mercy, of control taken and freely given up.
RogerEbert.com
Scout Tafoya
That a film this busy can find such focus in its closing moments says that whatever Diaz's methods of inspiration and creation, he knows exactly what he's doing.
Paste Magazine
Kenji Fujishima
The characters here are so vividly drawn and performed, and the contemplative mood so remarkably sustained, that the film casts a genuinely suspenseful and mesmerizing spell over the span of its nearly four hours.
New York Times
A.O. Scott
The film makes uncompromising demands on your attention and your empathy. But it is also illuminating and, in its downbeat, deliberate way, exhilarating.
Entertainment Weekly
Chris Nashawaty
The Woman Who Left may not be a movie for everyone, but if you allow yourself to settle into its leisurely tempo and marinate in its heroine's journey, it can be a richly rewarding experience.
AV Club
Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
The film boasts one of Diaz's most dramatically conventional, involving, and satisfying narratives.
Village Voice
Ela Bittencourt
The film is a story of solidarity and redemption, and its main strength is a panoramic vision of the Philippines' socioeconomic woes.
Slant Magazine
Carson Lund
It suffers by resembling arty, didactic bloat when it most begs for a more sophisticated dramatic touch.
Film Comment Magazine
Stuart Klawans
If you last through the finale, you might feel that Diaz's lessons-bite-size compared to Tolstoy's-have been consumed along the way, leaving nothing but peanut shells.
The Film Stage
Ethan Vestby
The Woman Who Left is as nocturnal as the best noir, one of those films in which every transition from nighttime to daytime registers as a shock.
Variety
Guy Lodge
The latest supersized opus from Filipino maximalist Lav Diaz is a powerful and, by his standards, refreshingly contained moral study.
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