The Best Filipino film I saw in 2008 is Paul Alexander Morales' CONCERTO.
I've seen a lot of good films last year from various film festivals like Cinemalaya, Cinemanila and CinemaOne Originals, aside from the usual movies shown in UP Cine Adarna and Robinson Galleria's Indiesine like "Adela", "100", "UPCAT", "Ambulancia", "Imburnal" and the much-ballyhooed "Serbis". I also greatly liked "Endo" but that was technically a 2007 film.
CONCERTO is a period film about a Filipino family striving to retain their humanity amidst the inhumanity of war with the music from the family piano ostensibly serving as the symbol for peace and universal understanding.
In syncopated rhythms, ‘Concerto’ shows how a family strives to carry on a normal life in abnormal times, with the piano as symbol for harmony not only within the family itself but also within the countryside setting that accommodates the Japanese. Instead of frontline encounters, this war diary reveals the quiet interplay of suspicion and trust
The worst film I saw is LALAMUNAN.
Don't even bother. I rue the day I went to its premiere at UP. The lighting,the story, the acting---everything is the pits.
If you don't believe me, try to look up the preview at Youtube. Horrible!
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