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Bakit May Kahapon Pa?
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Wikipedia article
'Bakit may Kahapon Pa?' ('Why Is There a Yesterday?') is a 1996 Filipino drama film directed by Joel Lamangan. It is about a village girl who is mysteriously spared when a platoon of soldiers led by Colonel Valderamma (Garcia) massacres her family along with peasants accused of sympathizing with the communists. When the girl has grown up, her body has healed but her mind is yet to recover from the horrible experience. She continues to thirst for revenge and crafts a scheme to exact retribution. She eyes the head of the military mission who instigated the carnage that she survived. He is now a well-admired retiring general who is about to cap his career with the service's highest honors.
Bakit May Kahapon Pa? is a movie that gave its lead star, Nora Aunor her second international acting award from 1st East Asia Film and Television Award (Malaysia).
Cast
*Nora Aunor as Helen Morda / Karina Salvacion
*Eddie Garcia as Gen. Valderama
*Dawn Zulueta as Doa Leandra "Lea" Valderama
* Melisse Santiago as Mumay
*Sarah Jane Abad as Young Helen
*Rolando Tinio as Priest
*Daniel Fernando as Mulong
*Irma Adlawan as Karina's Mother
*Jim Pebanco as Karina's Father
*Madeleine Nicolas as Nun
*Ernie Zarate as Colonel
*Ray Ventura as Col. Madrigal
*Angel Baldomar as Lt. Mario Valderama
*Elmer Jamias as Major Victa
*Julie Fe Navarro as Reporter
*Raul Dimaano as Bodyguard
Reviews
*"Bakit May Kahapon Pa? is heavy in flashback, it is almost where the entire film hangs its dramatic tension, but once you see Ate Guy with a gun, running with the loose screws of her head like a loony action star, isnt that already enough fun for a two-hour film?" - 'Richard Bolisay, film blogger'
*"The filmmakers are able to use and integrate creatively the various elements of the cinema - screenplay, production design, direction, acting, cinematography, editing, music, and sound. It reflects the creative integration of the various elements of cinema to an eminent degree. Its screenplay is effective; it explores significant subject matter of experience and conceives this with originality according to the particular demands of the film medium. The Cinematography is considered effective too; it successfully visualizes content through lighting, composition, movement, and related camera techniques, can't you see that "Bakit May Kahapon Pa?" is just a perfect movie?"
Awards and recognition
List of Film Festivals competed or Exhibited
*1997 Bakit May - 1st East Asian Film and TV Festival Penang, Malaysia, Aug. 28-Sept. 3. (Competition Film)
** Winner, Golden Pearl Award for Best Actress (Nora Aunor)*
*1997 - Fukuoka International Film Festival, Feature Film: Excellent Films of Asia, September 1221
*1997 - Cairo International Film Festival Cairo, Egypt, Competition Film, December 115
*1995 - 2nd Asian Film Festival, Tokyo, Japan,
*1998 - International Film Festival of India New Delhi, India, Competition Film, January 1020
*1998 - Brussels International Independent Film Festival, Competition Film
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