Year: 2008
Duration: 01:27:22
Directed by: Brillante Mendoza
Actors: Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Julio Diaz
Language: Filipino and Tagalog
Country: Philippines, France, South Korea and Hong Kong
Also known as: Serbis (Philippines; original title)
Description: A family runs a cinema called “Family” that has turned to showing old portnographic films to keep making money. The theater also serves as a residence to the family.
During an ordinary day for this family the movie shows how a normal but problematic existence can go on in a place that is being taken over by young homossexual prostitutes that use the back of the cinema room to sell their “services”.
“A family manages a porno theater that serves as their residence. Their common life, with happiness and sorrow, happens in the same place where young homossexual prostitutes their “services“”
Review: Serbis drama that shows the hard life of the Filipino family Pineda Angeles City. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest and skin irritation – all of these challenges life throws every day heroes of the film, but the real “star” of the film is a huge, dilapidated movie theater that is both home and place of work of the family. Once prestigious entertainment center, this theater is now showing adult movies and is a den of thieves all sorts, prostitutes, and perverts. The film is filled with dirty, stinking atmosphere, the characters are intertwined story lines with customers cinema, thieves and even a “stray” a goat, and the viewer sees the whole picture to the accompaniment sounds bustling city that is in constant motion …
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