Filipino filmmaker Jun Robles Lana is making his second appearance at Toronto International Film Festival with Your Mother’s Son, which is receiving its world premiere in the Centrepiece section.
Co-scripted by Lana and Elmer Gatchalian, the film tells the story of a hard-working mother and her delinquent son whose relationship is challenged when she invites one of her students to move into their home, so he can escape his violent father. Initially, it seems the son is suffering from a severe case of Oedipus complex, but as the film progresses, a more shocking tale of abuse of power and sexual dynamics begins to unfold.
Sue Prado (Barber’s Tales) plays the mother, with Kokoy de Santos (Gameboys) playing the son, and Elora Españo and Miggy Jimenez rounding out the cast. Lana, Perci Intalan and Ferdinand Lapuz produced the film through The IdeaFirst Company, Octobertrain Films, Quantum Films and Cineko Productions.
Co-scripted by Lana and Elmer Gatchalian, the film tells the story of a hard-working mother and her delinquent son whose relationship is challenged when she invites one of her students to move into their home, so he can escape his violent father. Initially, it seems the son is suffering from a severe case of Oedipus complex, but as the film progresses, a more shocking tale of abuse of power and sexual dynamics begins to unfold.
Sue Prado (Barber’s Tales) plays the mother, with Kokoy de Santos (Gameboys) playing the son, and Elora Españo and Miggy Jimenez rounding out the cast. Lana, Perci Intalan and Ferdinand Lapuz produced the film through The IdeaFirst Company, Octobertrain Films, Quantum Films and Cineko Productions.
- 9/9/2023
- by Liz Shackleton
- Deadline Film + TV
Christian Bables in I Love You, Beksman
Why does a simple thing like falling in love create so much confusion for some people? Perci Intalan's I Love You, Beksman, which opened the 2023 Queer East film festival in London, tells the story of a flamboyantly attired hairdresser and make-up artist who shocks his big queer family by coming out as straight after he falls for a beauty queen. As he tries to win her heart, he comes under pressure from her family to change the way he lives and presents himself, not realising that that was what got her attention in the first place. This lively, high spirited comedy takes on some serious issues but does so in a way which almost anybody can find enjoyable. Perci agreed to answer some questions about this for Eye For Film, as well as talking about another film at the festival, About Us But Not About Us,...
Why does a simple thing like falling in love create so much confusion for some people? Perci Intalan's I Love You, Beksman, which opened the 2023 Queer East film festival in London, tells the story of a flamboyantly attired hairdresser and make-up artist who shocks his big queer family by coming out as straight after he falls for a beauty queen. As he tries to win her heart, he comes under pressure from her family to change the way he lives and presents himself, not realising that that was what got her attention in the first place. This lively, high spirited comedy takes on some serious issues but does so in a way which almost anybody can find enjoyable. Perci agreed to answer some questions about this for Eye For Film, as well as talking about another film at the festival, About Us But Not About Us,...
- 4/29/2023
- by Jennie Kermode
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
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