(TV Times, September 27 - October 3, 1981, p.24)
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| Lino Brocka's Dalaga si Misis, Binata si Mister (1981), is one of the worst movies in his career, The problem is simple enough: Brocka is out of his milieu. Since he had made his reputation doing films about poverty (such as his three Cannes films - Insiang, Jaguar, and Bona), this film dealing with the superficial lives of two wealthy, superficial persons is just not within his area of competence. The results is trite and unrealistic. The film even inadvertently supports a totally unacceptable, old-fashioned, pre-feminist double standard: the husband is forgiven for having a mistress, but the wife is expected to remain faithful. The technical elements, surprising for a Brocka movie, are awful: the music, the location sound, and the editing, for example, are intolerably sloppy. Despite an excellent performance by Anita Linda, the film brings Brocka's reputation down to a new low. - Isagani R. Cruz (TV Times, September 27 - October 3, 1981, p.24) |
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