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Mexico/Spain 墨西哥／西班牙 The Philiphines 菲律賓 2019 | Spanish | DCP | B&W | 147min 2019 | Filipino/English | DCP | B&W | 282min Director Arturo Ripstein Director Lav Diaz Producer Miguel Necoechea, Mónica Lozano, Producer Piolo Pascual, BB. Joyce Bernal, Antonio Chavarrías, Marco Polo Constandse Erickson Raymundo, Enrico A. Roque Scriptwriter Paz Alicia Garcíadiego Scriptwriter Lav Diaz Cinematographer Alejandro Cantú Cinematographer Daniel Uy, Lav Diaz Editor Mariana Rodríguez Editor Lav Diaz Production Designer Alejandro García Production Designer Lav Diaz Music David Mansfield Sound Corinne de San Jose Sound Aldo Navarro Cast Joel Lamangan, Piolo Pascual, Cast Sylvia Pasquel, Alejandro Suárez, Shaina Magdayao, Pinky Amador Greta Cervantes, Daniel Gimenez Cacho Production Spring Films Production Carnaval Films, Oberon World Sales Indie Sales World Sales Latido Films

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The Halt Ang Hupa 末世昏天

The Halt is quite a dark and bleak feature showing a dystopian [導演訪問] future. Do you have any hope for the future? 《末世昏天》是一部黑暗黯淡的電影，呈現反烏托邦 It’s true that the film is quite desperate in tone, but there is a lot of 的未來。你對未來是否存有希望？ hope there as well, especially in the last part. We have to return to 影片主調確實頗為絕望，但仍存在不少希望，特別是結 the foundations of our lives on this planet, the small things, which 尾部分。我們必須回到地球生命的基本，細微事物，包 also includes taking care of our environment. There is a lot of that in 括環境保護。影片展示整個東南亞地區因火山爆發而陷 The Halt as well as presenting how the whole of South-East Asia has 入黑暗，因此全球變得黯淡荒涼。不過它邀請觀眾審視 turned black because of volcanic eruptions. So there is this bleak 我們面前的整個世界，故此希望仍在。 picture of the world, but there is hope, since it asks us to examine the world at large, the world in front of us. 很多觀眾把焦點放在總統角色上，認為他有菲律賓總統 杜特爾特甚至特朗普的影子。 Many reviewers of the film concentrate on the character of President Navarra in The Halt, stating he is a reminder of figures 他是集眾人於一身。當我創作這角色時，將暴君、極權 such as Rodrigo Duterte or even Donald Trump. 領袖及自大狂融為一體。他是杜特爾特、馬可斯、特朗 普、阿薩德，甚至是差利卓別靈在《大獨裁者》裏仿希 He is all of them. When I created this character, he became a 特拉的角色。 composite of all despots, totalitarian leaders and megalomaniacs… 若你將全世界領袖作精神分析，會發現精神病無處不 If you psychoanalyse the whole set-up of leadership in the world, 在。我們經常選出這樣的領袖：殘忍、瘋狂，但因外 there is psychosis everywhere. We always elect and have leaders 貌、體重及其他特徵，令他們看來同時有點滑稽。當你 such as these that I mentioned: cruel and mad men, but at the 看看從古至今的領袖，便會察覺這是多麼荒唐。 same time somewhat funny because of their looks, their weight or other attributes. 你認為這是部科幻片嗎？ Interview with Lav Diaz 是，也不是。它可以屬於科幻片類型，但同時有很強的 Asian Movie Pulse 現實基礎。影片背景是 2034 年，然而故事可以發生於過 去或現在。所以可說是科幻片，也可說是社會寫實電影。

Lav DIAZ was born in the Philippines in 1958. He worked as journalist, photographer and SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY 主要作品 scriptwriter before directing. Making films since the late 1990s, his breakthrough came with 2004 Evolution of a Filipino Family the five-hour feature Batang West Side (2002). In 2016, he won the Venice Best 一個菲律賓家庭的進化 Film with . He is heralded as the most active proponent of “slow” cinema. 2013 Norte, The End of History 罪與罰末世篇 拉夫狄亞茲 1958 年生於菲律賓，大學主修經濟，曾為音樂雜誌執筆，當過攝影師，後修 2016 A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery 讀電影製作課程，寫過電視及電影劇本。1992 年舉家移居紐約，1998 年隻身回馬尼拉定居， 革命英雄安眠曲 拍成首部長片《綁匪》(02)。作品以長篇及緩慢節奏見稱。憑《出獄的女人》(16) 獲威尼斯 2016 The Woman Who Left 出獄的女人 影展金獅獎。 2019 The Halt 末世昏天 ©BradleyLiew 2020 Genus Pan 人畜之別 93