Based on the homonymous 1950 stage play written by Filipino National Artist for Literature Nick Joaquin, “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is a black-and-white English-language film that was restored in 2014 by the Film Development Council of the Philippines, with the help of Mike de Leon, the son of the original producer of the movie, Manny de Leon. The restoration was made possible using the 35mm original camera negative preserved by the Asian Film Archive and the first generation print preserved at the Deutsche Kinemathek in Berlin for sound restoration. The result is truly impressive, with the new version being impeccable in audiovisual terms.
Starting with a narration that sets the chronology of the movie in the Filipino world of pre-World War II Intramuros of Old Manila in October 1941, the movie begins with Tony Javier, a young and very handsome man who is lodging in the house Don Lorenzo Marasigan and his daughters,...
Starting with a narration that sets the chronology of the movie in the Filipino world of pre-World War II Intramuros of Old Manila in October 1941, the movie begins with Tony Javier, a young and very handsome man who is lodging in the house Don Lorenzo Marasigan and his daughters,...
- 5/2/2023
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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