Moonglow

Isabel showed me this two years ago and there are moments in it that I haven’t stopped thinking about. A cop thriller by way of Isabel with a scene that absolutely took my breath away in its audacity. One of our very best, we’re lucky to have her.

Brandon Streussnig

Might just be the sexiest title card drop ever.

Lé Baltar

‘People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them’Moonglow was one of the world premieres I was most excited for at the International Film Festival Rotterdam this year. The premise sounded very interesting to me, and the neo-noir setting completely sold me from…

NinoLeaks

unfortunately, this felt so very cinematographer's showreel to me

James Learoyd

This is stylistically such a knock-out that it easily paves over all the cracks I found in some of the writing. You can kind of chart the course on the neo-noir plotting here from frame one: the doomed love story, the corrupt officials, the protagonist's big secret - it's…

Reinier_Zouw

LFF #5 - Moonglow Painfully, brutishly generic, both in form and genre. Incessant shallow focus slow zooms into a character longingly staring into the distance. The entire movie is a distant echo of the type of romantic noir is trying to pastiche. Sandoval and Atayde are…

Ben

Day 2 at BFI London Film Festival (Film number #2) A solid cop thriller, cannot really go wrong. There are some really nice moments in this as well.

Oliver

The path of the detective is littered with doomed reunions. Sometimes when I think of beautiful women from the past, my entire head dissolves into a stunningly composed memory too.

Rory Doherty

Watched at the Asia Society with a Q&A with Sandoval following. Isabel Sandoval loves cinema. She loves the melodramas of the 1940s and 1950s. She loves film noir. She loves her home country of the Phillippines. She loves characters who greatly desire justice and are…

Andrew Draper