Filipino director Lav Diaz doesnt believe in doing things in half measures.
If that sounds like a weighty time commitment, consider this: His previous film was eight.
Needless to say, these are not movies for the fidgety or easily distracted.
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She has spent the past 30 years behind its walls, jailed for a murder she did not commit.
Shes unexpectedly released after one of her fellow prisonersand closest friends behind barseventually confesses to the crime.
It turns out that Horacia was set up by a jealous ex-boyfriend.
When shes released, Horacia returns to her home.
Her husband has died.
Her son is missing, presumably sucked down into the countrys plague of homelessness or kidnapped.
Diaz presents his homeland as a place without either a safety net or compassion for its lost souls.
Its a country with no shortage of churches, but not enough mercy.
The only succor comes from small acts of empathy.
