The first Filipino film to show at the Cannes Film Festival is set in the slums of Manila. A beautiful girl gets raped by her mother's lover, and then learns how to exact revenge.
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Title: Insiang (1976)
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Trapped in the slums, Insiang finds living with her disapproving, sharp-tongued mother, Tonya, trying. Tonya, having long ago been abandoned by her husband, takes her bitterness out on those around her. In a fit of anger, she finally throws out her husband's relatives who have been living with her, but it's not for the sake of their not bringing in money anymore, which it seems on the surface. She's making way for her boyfriend, Dado, to move in. Dado, the town bully, is young enough to be her son, and this new living situation becomes the talk of the town. It isn't long before he forces himself upon Insiang. Tonya is at first outraged but soon takes Dado's side and blames her daughter for her own rape. Insiang leaves home to seek support and solace from her ardent would-be boyfriend Bebot, but he proves to be another Lothario as well. Forced to return home, Insiang turns this inescapable situation upon itself to exact revenge. Written by statmanjeff
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PhilippinesRelease Date:
6 December 1978 (France) See more »Also Known As:
Az anya, a lány és a szerető See more »Company Credits
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Insiang: I love you, Bebot.
Bebot: If you love me, you will relent.
Insiang: I love you but I don't like what you do to me in the movie theater.
Bebot: I'm a man, Insiang. I can't control myself.
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In 1978, the movie became the first Filipino feature film to be presented in the Cannes Film Festival (Director's Fortnight). See more »Quotes
Bebot: Admit it. You don't want to go to the movies with me. You don't love me anymore.Insiang: I love you, Bebot.
Bebot: If you love me, you will relent.
Insiang: I love you but I don't like what you do to me in the movie theater.
Bebot: I'm a man, Insiang. I can't control myself.
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Forget the rest! Hilda Koronel's magnificent performance as the title character is enough to recommend this tale of rape and revenge, seduction and squalor, power and poverty. Hilda lives in a slum in Manila, maltreated by her domineering mother (Mona Lisa). Her mother has a lover (Ruel Vernal) old enough to be her son. Vernal, doing the lover bit because Lisa holds the household money, has his eyes set on Insiang. He rapes her but Insiang turns things around, getting Vernal to be her parasitic paramour. Great film noir, great performances.