Last May, Quentin Tarantino was at Cannes to present his Inglourious Basterds. And while there, he also tried to watch as many films as possible, including Brillante Mendoza’s Kinatay. So, that’s the letter Tarantino wrote to this director, who won the Best Director Award:
Dear Mr. Mendoza
Bravo on your diffcult troubling work. Your decission to never dramatize the murder, never indulge in movie suspense…. was bold, daring, and to me, the whole point of making the movie in the first place. I felt it was completely a eyewitness account of a horroble murder. I believed everything I saw. Your point wasnt to dramatize it. It was to capture it. Bravo
Kinatay is coming out in french theaters next month (no US dates yet?); Watch 2 clips.
Via The Playlist; The Original Letter
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Joachim from Facebook:
This is a slightly interesting movie, but needs to be seen from a good print. I attended a terrible digital projection, and it was completely impossible to see what was going on. This is one of the darkest movies ever made… it takes almost place almost entirely at night, and there’s a minimal amount of lighting, if any. But the youtube clips I’ve seen prove that the original version is ok, unlike the version I saw.