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Ang Larawan, internationally released as The Portrait (Japanese: ある肖像画, Hepburn: Aru Shōzō-ga), is a 2017 Philippine musical film directed by Loy Arcenas. Based on the 1997 stage play, Larawan which in turn was based on the 1950 literary play A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino by National Artist Nick Joaquin, the film takes place ...
Jan 8, 2018 · Winning Best Picture and several other awards during the MMFF Gabi ng Parangal, the film is based on the quintessential Nick Joaquin play A Portrait of an Artist as Filipino, scored by the acclaimed Ryan Cayabyab, and a libretto by National Artist Rolando Tinio.
Jan 2, 2018 · An excellent filmic experience Loy Arcenas’s "Ang Larawan" most certainly is. It can confidently hold its own when compared to the original play (both as text and as theater), as well as the CCP-staged musical from the late 1990s.
Dec 28, 2017 · Adapted from the 1997 Filipino-musical adaptation of Joaquin’s elegy, with libretto by National Artist for Literature Rolando Tinio, ANG LARAWAN returns for the Filipino audiences with a score of remembering and advances further through the technology that we have today.
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Jan 2, 2018 · Together—the cast, the production team, the scores, the cinematography and the storytelling—create a poetic harmony which charm can be likened to that of the enchanting voice of the Adarna bird, a mythical creature from a Philippine epic, written during the Spanish colonial period.
Dec 24, 2017 · The film boasts of an orchestral score that swells and swings as the characters break down in tears or burst into dance (as they sing, of course). Ang Larawan counts among its cast all the resonant names in Philippine theater: Ampil, Legaspi, Alejandro, Buencamino, and many more.
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Dec 23, 2017 · “Ang Larawan is a brilliant, fabulous production with great acting and excellent technical elements,” praised another. The film's warm reception at Japan’s Tokyo Film Festival, where it premiered in October, backs up its top ratings from the CEB.
