The Garden of Earthly Delights
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Eleven-year-old Ginto is struggling to survive in the slums of Manilla: as a gangster if necessary. Ginto’s life doesn’t get any easier after he meets a Dutch (sex) tourist. First feature-length fiction film by Morgan Knibbe (Those Who Feel the Fire Burning). The metropolis Manilla in the Philippines shows no mercy to the poor. It’s a dog-eat-dog world, even for eleven-year-old Ginto and his sister Asia. Ginto decides that a life of crime is preferable to being dependent on handouts; much to the dismay of his sister Asia, a sex worker who’s saving up for a better life.
Knibbe’s latest film has received praise for its intense camerawork and the way the director exposes relations between the West and former colonies: everything’s for sale to those…
