CHARO Santos in “Ang Babaeng Humayo”
After Venice and Toronto, “The Woman Who Left” goes to London. Fresh from its Golden Lion triumph at the Venice fest, Lav Diaz’s “Ang Babaeng Humayo” was added to the lineup of the 60th BFI (British Film Institute) London Film Festival in the United Kingdom from Oct. 5 to 16.
The fest’s website describes the “slow-burn melodrama” as the “deserved winner of Venice’s Golden Lion.” On the website, critic Kate Taylor hails it as “a luminous film [that] explores the emotional burden borne by disenfranchised Filipinos who live in the shadow of colonialism.” “Humayo” will be shown on Oct. 15 and 16.
The only other Filipino film in the BFI program, Brillante Ma. Mendoza’s “Ma’ Rosa,” will be screened on Oct. 6 and 9. Bayani San Diego Jr.