Justin Chang
speaker
1,518 appearances
49 recordings
2 series
first heard Nov 2024
last heard 4d ago
Justin Chang’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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recordings per month · last 12 monthsRecordings per month over the last 12 months — 26 in all, peaking in Sep 2026 with 4.
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But Clara is reluctant.
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Probably because, like Isabel, she can see that people are being exploited and marginalized in the name of development and progress.
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Filipiniana has just a few spare dribbles of plot.
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From time to time we hear ominous whispers of a young girl who's gone missing on the golf course.
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Isabel is given a seemingly simple task.
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to return a stray golf club to the president of the resort.
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That becomes a kind of quest.
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with a few disturbing and even devastating revelations along the way.
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But what distinguishes Manuel's filmmaking is how much of the story he conveys visually.
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Through texture and atmosphere, framing and blocking.
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He shows us the resort from a seemingly infinite number of angles.
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Shooting in long takes and seldom moving the camera.
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But the filmmaking never feels static.
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Every shot of Filipiniana.
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Positively churns with life.
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Early on, Manuel unleashes a playfully choreographed sequence worthy of the great French director Jacques Tati.
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in which the resort workers perfectly synchronized movements, setting a table, stacking chairs, and cleaning a pool
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are brilliantly set to music.
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It's a rich dose of comic fantasy that serves to underscore the situation's grim reality.
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Filippignana is an impeccable piece of world building.
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