Name: Curacha ang babaeng walang pahinga
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-05-27
Duration: 2 h 21 min
Rating: 6.4
Cast: Rosanna Roces, Jaclyn Jose, Ruby Moreno

I think its interesting how the rise of Star Cinema films and SM pretty much tamed out Philippine Cinema.

Curacha is a film about a prostitute and sex show performer (affectionally called as torera, bull rider in english) - as she finds herself lost in the middle of a coup in Manila. When she finds a fellow torera friend, she tries to make thing right once and for all.

Like this is packed to the brim with political commentary and unabashed sexuality. It predicts the in coming furor that the Estrada administration will fall under AND is commenting sharply on female sexuality as viewed as an object.

Did it succeed?

Not that much. It can get really far too sloppy AND awkward at times. It rather confused at what it truly want to point out but , in today's world, the best that big cinema producers can offer is a soft social commentary that falls back to the puritan values they temper people with. Its actually insane that this kind of hodge-podge idea was able to be shown in Philippine Cinema. It is sorely missed, especially when most are forced out into Independent distributors while Foreign films with similar content just glides through sensors.

Sadly the best version I could find of the film is only the 100 Min CUT version available in Youtube. Apparently a more complete 141 min version is somewhere out there.

Recommended.

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Curacha ang babaeng walang pahinga (1998)

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