The Natural Phenomenon of Madness

本片由Charliebebs Gohetia导演Jess Mendoza,奥帕林·桑托斯,Regina Valenzuela主演，于未知菲律宾上映！

It`s hard to say exactly what triggers the split. One night they were having sex, he was taking her roughly and she wasn`t enjoying it. (She later thought of it as a rape.) Next morning, as usual, he left without a word. That evening she decided to cut her hair very short, and threw him out. He needed her blood (he required regular transfusions and she shared his rare-ish blood type) but she was unforgiving. `Tell your new girlfriend to call me when you`re dying.` That`s what she said when they met in the park some time later. Charliebebs Gohetia cut his teeth as editor on Brillante Mendoza films and turned director a couple of years ago to make a feature about drag-queen beauty pageants, a kind of grunge Priscilla. This second feature is something else again, a beautifully stylised meditation on what we think about when we`re in a relationship and having sex. It`s in two long chapters, titled `She` and `He`, giving both antagonists equal weight, and is coolly shot in monochrome widescreen. It`s radically unlike any other Filipino indie movie you have ever seen, and it`s mesmerisingly grown-up.