A schoolboy falls for a bar girl—what could possibly go wrong? Everything. Deliciously.
A typical bar girl sells flesh just to augment a living. A typical school teenager fell in love with her despite being a prostitute. Both share the course of bodily fascination and enjoy the intensity of lustful obsession...until one day, guilt feelings envelop her conscience.
Direction
Reyes captures Manila's underbelly with unflinching eye.
Writing
Melodramatic dialogue that somehow lands emotional punches.
Director
Jose Javier Reyes
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Part of the 'bold' film wave in Philippine cinema—genre films that pushed boundaries while often reinforcing conservative moral endings to satisfy censors.
Director Jose Javier Reyes later became known for more mainstream rom-coms; this early work shows his range in gritty urban drama territory.
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