Brillante Mendoza
TIFF 2013 | Sapi (Brillante Mendoza, Philippines)—Vanguard
By Violeta Kovacsics | 09/04/2013 | Cinema Scope Online, TIFF 2013
By Violeta Kovacsics Brillante Mendoza began his turn towards genre with Kinatay, which was a perfect mixture of social commentary and genre atmospherics. Sapi moves a step beyond, into explicit horror-movie territory (the plot deals with demonic possessions), but as with the earlier film Mendoza demonstrates that he only understands genre when it is strongly…
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