Article by: Ludovico Franco

Translated by: Alessandra Di Paola Seminara 

Just like Magellan (Gael García Bernal), who keeps veering off course as he crosses the oceans, Lav Diaz probes new stylistic perspectives for his cinema: with Albert Serra as producer, Diaz shoots for the first time in a language other than Tagalog and adopts color. He brings the violence of colonialism back to its archaic roots, reinterpreting the figure of the explorer and the myth of the Age of “Discoveries.”