A stage mother drives her younger son to his ‘stardoom’ to make up for her downward slide from her bourgeois origins.
Acting
Lolita Rodriguez's Toyang is cinema's most terrifying stage mother.
Direction
Brocka turns poverty into Greek tragedy without romanticizing it.
Cinematography
Manila's slums shot like they're swallowing souls whole.
Director
Lino Brocka
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