Manila in the Claws of Neon
1975, Drama/Mystery and thriller, 2h 5m
9 Reviews 100+ RatingsYou might also like
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Ligaya Paraiso
Julio Madiaga
Omeng
Gido
Atong
Benny
Critic Reviews for Manila in the Claws of Neon
All Critics (9) | Top Critics (5) | Fresh (9)
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The film moves to the alternating beats created by its characters' hopes and their miseries, by their talk of a different kind of future and the crushing reality of their present circumstances.
February 6, 2014 | Full Review… -
The intimate proletarian melodrama The Claws of Light succeeds where so many political allegories fail: With ethical and emotional sophistication, it dramatizes the suffering of the disadvantaged with characters that feel individual yet archetypal.
February 4, 2014 | Full Review… -
Lino Brocka's devastating ... melodrama opens with several stunning, grainy black-and-white shots of Manila, striking a beautiful balance between on-the-ground verisimilitude and fable-like eeriness.
February 4, 2014 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… -
The vicious depredations of the urban jungle have rarely been bared with such fierce clarity as in this 1975 melodrama, directed by Lino Brocka.
February 3, 2014 | Full Review… -
For Brocka and his characters, Manila is a libertarian dystopia, where poverty breeds its own predators and victims as the city's poor grasp for the little wealth that hasn't yet been distributed.
February 1, 2014 | Rating: 3.5/4 | Full Review… -
A significant pillar of Filipino cinema at last recuperated, Brocka's Manila in the Claws of Light is a profoundly sympathetic melodrama cloaked in gritty neo-realism.
August 18, 2020 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…
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