Serbis

(Philippines, 2008, 93 mins)

digital video

Wisconsin Premiere

writer: Armando Lao, Boots Agbayani Pastor
director of photography: Odyssey Flores
editor: Claire Villa-Real
sound: Emmanual Nolet Clemente
music: Gian Gianan
production design: Benjamin Padero, Carlo Tabije
art direction: Harley Alcasid, Deans Habal
executive producer: Didier Costet
producer: Ferdinand Lapuz
associate producer: Renato Esguerra
supervising producer: Antonio Del Rosario, JC Nigado
cast: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz, Coco Martin, Kristofer King, Dan Alvaro, Mercedes Cabral, Roxanne Jordan

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• Trailer

Welcome to a warm and sunny day in the life of a dilapidated adult movie theater in the bustling Filipino Angeles City, former home to a US Air Force base whose cadets once made up its clientele. Incongruously named the Family, the theater is operated by a large extended family whose matriarch maintains a tenuous control over their future. While the Family teems with illicit behavior — thieves are on the prowl, transsexual hustlers populate its corridors, and even the projectionist gets some action — the family running it deals with far less exotic troubles: unwanted pregnancies, bills, estrangements, court cases. The connections between the family members are almost as labyrinthine as the movie house itself, which is riddled with hideaways for quickie hookups and massive stairwells for chaotic chase sequences. The place rivals Tsai Ming-Liang’s theater in Goodbye Dragon Inn (WFF04) as an embodiment of the evocative memories of cinemas that turn young viewers into innovative filmmakers. Graphic and frank but never tawdry, Serbis defies categorization at every turn – it’s a skin flick with a brain. “Superb…teems with vitality, humor, and anguish.” – Los Angeles Times. Winner, Golden Kinnaree Award, 2008 Bangkok; 2008 Cannes, Toronto, and New York Film Festivals. Viewer discretion advised.

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