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ANTOINETTE Jadaone’s film about not meeting one’s heroes swept this year’s Metro Manila Film Festival’s (MMFF) awarding ceremonies, going home with nine awards including all of the night’s biggest ones: Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actress for 24-year-old Charlie Dizon and Best Actor for Paulo Avelino.
The film has been a frontrunner since it was announced as an entry to the festival in November due to the praise it got when it premiered at the 2020 Tokyo International Film Festival.
What was more impressive was that Ms. Dizon won the Best Actress Award over seasoned veterans including the Superstar herself, Nora Aunor.
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Antoinette Jadaone
WEâVE seen some of our stars without filters: less than perfect, maybe a zit here and there; weâve seen them act in an unsavory manner, as people. The hype is hardly ever real when it comes to these people, as the plot of
Fangirl implies, but the movie, which set social media abuzz, hits the hype.
Award-winning director Ms. Jadaone, known for romantic comedies with a cerebral flavor, does it again, but this time, she translates the tropes that make us believe in love to make us believe in something more sinister. No wonder this film made it to the Tokyo International Film Festival (where it premiered), but also at the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival in Estonia. It also won Best Picture at the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) this year. I knew we were watching something great when I noted the attention to detail in one for the very first shots of the film: Jane (played by relative newbie Charlie Dizon) has chipped red nails, seen while holding up h
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