Slingshot (2007)

Jul. 23rd, 2010 06:56 am
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A scene from “Tirador.”
A Hurricane of Misery
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: July 22, 2010
The energetic Filipino director Brillante Ma. Mendoza unleashes a hurricane of misery in “Tirador” (“Slingshot”), his 2007 feature that’s only now being released in the United States. Dropping us unceremoniously into a nighttime police raid of the Manila slums, the film unfolds among a cross-section of impoverished young grifters as they engage in frenzied bouts for survival amid compressed hovels and visible sewage. More
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