It is hard to talk about Jun Lana’s “Shadow Behind the Moon” without spoiling the would-be experience of the audience. To describe it on its form is already giving it away: it is a single-take drama with analog-video aesthetics. The treatment places the writer-director Lana into the spotlight of technical exposition and, interestingly, goes on to fill this exercise with an equally indulging material.
The film is prologued by a series of on-screen texts to provide some context: the story is set in the early 1990s during the intensified military campaign against communist rebels in the Marag Valley. Caught in this struggle are “internal refugees” who are displaced from their homes, but relocated within the area. Joel (Anthony Falcon) and Ema (Lj Reyes) are part of these “internal refugees” with no permanent residency but cannot leave the valley. They are friends with Mando (Luis Alandy), a soldier who helped them when Joel got sick.
The film is prologued by a series of on-screen texts to provide some context: the story is set in the early 1990s during the intensified military campaign against communist rebels in the Marag Valley. Caught in this struggle are “internal refugees” who are displaced from their homes, but relocated within the area. Joel (Anthony Falcon) and Ema (Lj Reyes) are part of these “internal refugees” with no permanent residency but cannot leave the valley. They are friends with Mando (Luis Alandy), a soldier who helped them when Joel got sick.
- 8/30/2024
- by Epoy Deyto
- AsianMoviePulse
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