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Director:
Kidlat Tahimik
Writer:
Kidlat Tahimik (writer)
Release Date:
1979 (Philippines) more
Genre:
Drama | Comedy more
Awards:
3 wins more
User Comments:
Philippines art movie lacks discipline. more

Cast

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Mang Fely ... Kaya
Dolores Santamaria ... Nanay
Georgette Baudry ... Lola
Katrin Muller ... Mutter (as Katarina)
Hartmut Lerch ... Big Boss
Kidlat Tahimik ... Kidlat
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Perfumed Nightmare (USA)
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Runtime:
93 min
Country:
Philippines
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
Sweden:Btl

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3 out of 10 people found the following comment useful:-
Philippines art movie lacks discipline., 1 February 2003
Author: Mozjoukine (Mozjoukine@yahoo.com.au) from Australia



It's revealing that this naive art movie became better know outside it's country of origin than the thousands of highly professional popular entertainment films of the Philippino cinema of the Marcos era. That is taking political correctness off the loony end.

On it's own, PERFUMED GARDEN is grossly over long and confused - when he becomes the second person from his village to fly abroad, the autobiographical lead loses confidence in both bamboo architecture and his hero, Werner Von Braun who he learned about from the Voice of America. He takes his Jeepney to Paris where he sees only ugly building sites and to Germany where he spends a large part of the movie watching an onion dome being put in place. This is mixed in with beauty pageants, ice making, re-birthing Jeepney taxis, a Von Braun fan club, a rogue American scout master, the bridge into his village that we first see him dragging toy versions of his cab over (there turns out to be another bridge, after a lot of voice over about the uniqueness of the first).

With more rigorous editing, we could have an interesting novelty, ordering the nice touches in here - the sister as an enterprising ice lolly seller, the flashback to his father fighting the Spanish, building the bamboo structure that resists hurricanes, the gum ball concession in Paris, the aging street seller whose death represents another parking space to the American. As Tarhimik's work became more professional in TURUMBA these tended to drop out.

Printing up the films of Eddie Romero or Lino Broka would have been a better use of the raw stock.

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