PHILIPPINES · 2014

Norte, the End of History

Lav Diaz
Philippine Cinema miscarriage of justice moral corruption redemption sacrifice poverty and class struggle
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An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced to take a harsh sentence; and a mother and her two children wander the countryside in search of some kind of redemption.

Year2014
CountryPhilippines
DirectorLav Diaz
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