PHILIPPINES · 2008

Melancholia

Lav Diaz
Philippine Cinema grief and loss philippine history trauma processing memory and remembrance therapeutic healing
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Three people start a strange therapy to escape their agonies. Each attempts to process those they lost during the Marcos dictatorship while examining their own grief.

Year2008
CountryPhilippines
DirectorLav Diaz
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