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Insiang

Play trailer Poster for Insiang 1976,  1h 33m,  Drama Play Trailer Watchlist
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After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.

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Manohla Dargis New York Times Oct 27, 2015
"Insiang" is as much a national captivity narrative as it is a very specific suffering-woman saga (with shades of the classic maternal melodrama). Go to Full Review
Richard Brody The New Yorker Oct 26, 2015
This intense, furious melodrama, by the Filipino director Lino Brocka, fuses its narrative energy with documentary veracity. Go to Full Review
Nick Schager Slant Magazine Oct 24, 2015
3.5/4
Lino Brocka's portrait of familial treachery and societal abandonment channels its melodrama through the filter of neorealism. Go to Full Review
Ryan Oquiza Sinegang Aug 18, 2023
5/5
Every frame of this film epitomizes the deteriorating conditions the slums had to endure under Marcos’s dictatorship in the '70s. It’s a social realist venture into the very soul of the Filipino people in a time replete with turmoil. Go to Full Review
Panos Kotzathanasis Asian Movie Pulse Dec 20, 2020
"Insiang" is a masterpiece, a film that truly highlights how melodrama can be a work of high art and not just a tearjerker. Go to Full Review
Nicholas Bell IONCINEMA.com Sep 9, 2020
4/5
Lisa supplies Insiang with its palpable dramatic tension in what plays like a Filipino version of Mommie Dearest. Their interactions eventually veer into exploitation territory, but Brocka's film resists camp aesthetics. Go to Full Review
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Audience Reviews

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Rey S Jan 23, 2018 the movie depicts poverty that is the root of cruelty and violence.
Albus W Jan 23, 2018 first pinoy film shown in cannes... kaya lang.. pag makarinig na ako ng tumutulong tubig sa gripo.. may naiimagine na ako bwahahah See more
Albus P May 20, 2009 Peel away the $13 budget, the atrocious scoring and the unnecessarily long sequences shot inside a slaughterhouse and what you have left is a compelling story, nice direction and a couple of outstanding performances. See more
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Insiang

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Cast & Crew

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Lino Brocka

Director

Hilda Koronel

Insiang

Ruel Vernal

Dado

Rez Cortez

Bebot

Carpi Asturias

Karyas

Mona Lisa

Tonya

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Insiang

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Movie Info

Synopsis After a teenager is raped by her mother's boyfriend, she sets out to exact revenge on anyone who has hurt her.
Director
Lino Brocka
Screenwriter
Mario O'Hara, Lamberto E. Antonio
Genre
Drama
Original Language
Filipino
Release Date (DVD)
May 30, 2017
Runtime
1h 33m
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