Boasting fantastic imagery, arrhythmical cuts, an inventive screenplay and a wonderfully nuanced performance from its child star, Nervous Translation is at once a powerful rite-of-passage drama and an allegory about the uncertainty of life in the Philippines, as the country emerged from two decades of dictatorship and plunged headlong into capitalism in the late 1980s. Tracking a second-grader's eccentric efforts to perceive the chaotic circumstances whirling around her, Shireen Seno has teased a piece of contemplative cinema out of a restless child's play.
A well-known experimental visual artist and curator, Seno has worked with auteurs Lav Diaz and John Torres;...
A well-known experimental visual artist and curator, Seno has worked with auteurs Lav Diaz and John Torres;...
- 3/19/2018
- by Clarence Tsui
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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