When the Waves Are Gone

Kapag Wala Nang Mga Alon

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VERDICT: Philippine auteur Lav Diaz offers a damning and doomed critique of the violent state of his country through the on-screen physical and psychological disintegration of a policeman weighed down by the guilt of his murderous past. 

Clarence Tsui

September 5th, 2022

In his director’s statement on the Venice Film Festival website, Lav Diaz is candid about whom he
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