Bona

It starts with a procession, and ends in baptism.

Jay

absolute filipino cinema. in the face of oppression and cruelty, lino brocka's films stand as acts of resistance. his works consistently challenge structures of power and refuse to let injustice go unexamined. among them, bona addresses the silence with truth, exposing the…

mikko

Dang Lino Brocka! You always just bring something to the table and what I'm surprised is that it mainly is a compassionate element from a female viewpoint all be it by a male director. Much like his other films this does not fail to point out the sorrows of an infatuated…

pirateneckbeard

Watched Lino Brocka’s newly restored “Bona” (1980) starring Nora Aunor in UPFI's Cine Adarna. It was screened at Cannes Film Festival earlier this year as one of the returning Classics. Hopped up on something and sleepless, but enjoyed it nonetheless. Brocka’s set of…

Andre’u

gets na gets si bona, late 70s/early 80s phillip salvador hits different i’m sorry 😩

🎃spooky allain♡🎃

the audience was mostly filipinos and i love how non filipinos were shocked in certain scenes while i hear a filipino tito laugh

kat

it's none of your business if i'm in love[spoilers - although the letterboxd synopsis reveals just as much] perhaps the most feminist film of lino brocka's oeuvre, bona can be seen as an allegory of the subjugation of women in a patriarchal world, a jeanne dielman for the…

chuzen

subverts the tried and true tropes of melodrama with moments of stark humor and a reverence for how we make moving images both on and off set — one of the all timer cuts to black

Justin LaLiberty

Opening with the Feast of the Black Nazarene was WIIILD. Crazy how life imitates art even after four decades with Nora Aunor and Phillip Salvador—not the irony and the parallelism between the characters they played and the persons they have become. Fanaticism, be it…

Terence Ang 洪偉凱