I believe that I keep mentioning this film, but I have never really made a proper (blog) case out of it. So let's go into a bit more detail about Lav Diaz's painful trip through the Land of Encantos.

Encantos is a docu-fiction hybrid, akin to the works of Nicolás Pereda, a Mexican slow-film director, who plays with our expectations of fact and fiction. Diaz's film was, in fact, originally a documentary. It is set in the aftermath of typhoon Reming, which hit the country in autumn 2006, only . . .

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