It’s difficult, and possibly unfair, to separate Filipino director Adolfo Boringa Alix, Jr.’s Mystery of the Night from the ideas it’s representing. The film uses folkloric techniques to tell a story about love, betrayal, and the insidious nature of colonization by undercutting expectations and shifting away from the Western idiom toward something indigenous. As such,...
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