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Mondomanila is a 2012 Filipino experimental musical exploitation horror comedy-drama crime film directed by independent filmmaker Khavn, based on a work by Norman Wilwayco, who also co-wrote the script with Khavn.
Khavn's Mondomanila, Or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey is a hardcore and edgy satire on poverty porn, and a scathing critique on our local government for not giving a fuck when it comes to the poor.
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Jan 1, 2002 · A damning novel about abject poverty, sexism, homophobia, anarchy, and other conceivable political incorrectness, Mondomanila is an award-winning transgressive Filipino novel narrated by a rebellious character, swearing and cursing to his heart's content, in a voice full of passion and poison.
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- Norman Wilwayco
Nov 30, 2010 · Mondomanila is a 2012 Filipino experimental musical exploitation horror comedy-drama crime film directed by independent filmmaker Khavn, based on a work by Norman Wilwayco, who also co-wrote the script with Khavn. It premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in January 2012.
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Jun 22, 2012 · Based on the novel by Norman Wilwayco, prolific political filmmaker Khavn de la Cruz harnesses this rage and mixes it with an ironic comic ferociousness, erupting at the thought of ‘aristo-rat’ perspectives of the poor in Philippine society and reeling against the empty pity sent across the continents from the western world.
Jul 31, 2012 · You bookend the film with those two sets of images that are real, but after the flood images you start the story with a toothless showman that seems to imply that what follows is not real, but a spectacle about the slums.
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Mondomanila, or: How I Fixed My Hair After a Rather Long Journey: Directed by Khavn. With Timothy Castillo, Marife Necesito, Jim Rocky Tangco, Jonathan Reyes. Tony knows nothing but tough times, living in the bleak circus of the slums he calls home amongst denizens of the underworld: the crippled pimp, the lonely housewife, the neighborhood gay ...
