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Brillante “Dante” Mendoza was proclaimed best director in this year's 62nd Cannes Film Festival in France for his work "Kinatay" (Butchered), besting the likes of acclaimed directors Ang Lee, Pedro Almodovar, Jane Campion and Quentin Tarantino.
Some critics called the film "unwatchable" but others admitted that while they cringed at the film's blunt realism on violence, they could not look away.
A few days before the start of the premier festival, Mendoza wrote in an e-mail: “Ako lang ang walang pangalan.”
Mendoza bared in the earlier interview that just days before Cannes was set to open, he was still finishing the post-production work on “Kinatay” in Paris.
He shared his frenzied, last-minute adventure to finish “Kinatay.”
“I’m still in Paris, trying to finish my post production for the film. I’m with Mike Idioma, my sound designer, and my daughter Angelica,” Mendoza said.
“I had my final mix at the Malakoff Studios. Mike finished at 2:00 this morning, checking the sound with the guy from Dolby Digital. Tonight, I will check the audio together with the visuals at LTC laboratory Paris, which is processing and doing our prints. Tomorrow, I will check the subtitle at TITRA. The prints should be ready on Friday, May 15. Then we will hand-carry the prints by train to Cannes, hopefully in time for the press and official screenings on that weekend,” he said.
Dante pulled a tremendous upset victory since, in addition to Tarantino, Campion and Von Trier, he won over established filmmakers, including Michael Haneke, whose “The White Ribbbon” won the Palme d’Or, French master Alain Resnais, Oscar winner Ang Lee, Ken Loach, Gasper Noe and Johnnie To.
As the first Filipino to win the Best Director prize in Cannes, he joins the list of revered filmmakers who have won the coveted prize, including Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Costa Gavras, Bernard Tavernier, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, Joel Coen, Pedro Almodovar and Gus Van Sant.
Tikoy Aguiluz, Cinemanila International Film Festival director, reported in an e-mail that Tarantino himself liked “Kinatay.”
With Mendoza’s win, “Kinatay” is poised to gain further accolades in the international film scene.
"Kinatay" notably features corrupt cops hacking a prostitute to pieces with blunt kitchen knives.
Still determined to portray the social reality around him, Mendoza in "Kinatay" traces 24 hours in the day of a trainee policeman, happily beginning with his wedding in the morning to close with the young man's first outing at night with a band of corrupt colleagues.
source: showbizandstyle.inquirer.net
Some critics called the film "unwatchable" but others admitted that while they cringed at the film's blunt realism on violence, they could not look away.
A few days before the start of the premier festival, Mendoza wrote in an e-mail: “Ako lang ang walang pangalan.”
Mendoza bared in the earlier interview that just days before Cannes was set to open, he was still finishing the post-production work on “Kinatay” in Paris.
He shared his frenzied, last-minute adventure to finish “Kinatay.”
“I’m still in Paris, trying to finish my post production for the film. I’m with Mike Idioma, my sound designer, and my daughter Angelica,” Mendoza said.
“I had my final mix at the Malakoff Studios. Mike finished at 2:00 this morning, checking the sound with the guy from Dolby Digital. Tonight, I will check the audio together with the visuals at LTC laboratory Paris, which is processing and doing our prints. Tomorrow, I will check the subtitle at TITRA. The prints should be ready on Friday, May 15. Then we will hand-carry the prints by train to Cannes, hopefully in time for the press and official screenings on that weekend,” he said.
Dante pulled a tremendous upset victory since, in addition to Tarantino, Campion and Von Trier, he won over established filmmakers, including Michael Haneke, whose “The White Ribbbon” won the Palme d’Or, French master Alain Resnais, Oscar winner Ang Lee, Ken Loach, Gasper Noe and Johnnie To.
As the first Filipino to win the Best Director prize in Cannes, he joins the list of revered filmmakers who have won the coveted prize, including Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman, Francois Truffaut, Luis Buñuel, Robert Bresson, Costa Gavras, Bernard Tavernier, Werner Herzog, Robert Altman, Joel Coen, Pedro Almodovar and Gus Van Sant.
Tikoy Aguiluz, Cinemanila International Film Festival director, reported in an e-mail that Tarantino himself liked “Kinatay.”
With Mendoza’s win, “Kinatay” is poised to gain further accolades in the international film scene.
"Kinatay" notably features corrupt cops hacking a prostitute to pieces with blunt kitchen knives.
Still determined to portray the social reality around him, Mendoza in "Kinatay" traces 24 hours in the day of a trainee policeman, happily beginning with his wedding in the morning to close with the young man's first outing at night with a band of corrupt colleagues.
source: showbizandstyle.inquirer.net
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