Thursday 7 January 2016

Movie Review: Ari - My Life With A King - Third Kapampangan Movie To Win Best Picture In The MMFF New Wave Category

WE MISSED a lot of indie movies shown last year as we were our of the country several times. And so we’re glad and grateful to some producers who willingly lent us screeners of their films. We’ve already seen “Ari: My Life with a King” sent by Ferdie Lapuz (best picture winner in the Metro-Manila Filmfest New Wave Category) and “Imbisibol” sent by Director Lawrence Fajardo through Dennis Evangelista (best picture winner in the SinagMaynila Filmfest last March).

“Ari” is from the word Hari, pronounced without the letter H since the film is shot using the Kapampangan native language and they don’t pronounce the letter H. It is the directorial debut of Carlo Enciso Catu and produced by Holy Angels University of Angeles City and the Center for Kapampangan Studies. The story is about Conrado Guinto or Dado, considered the Kampapangan King of Poets (the version of the Tagalog Makata), who has received all sorts of awards and recognition for his works as a poet and writer but remains so impoverished.

The film opens with the Sapang Biabas Academy (where he finished high school) giving him a tribute as outstanding alumnus for culture and the arts. While he’s delivering his acceptance speech, the audience of high school students and faculty members are actually not that interested in him. They give more applause to a local dance group who performed for them.


By Mario Bautista: Showbiz Portal
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