Black and white/HD, 360 mins
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Synopsis
Florentina Hubaldo keeps repeating her story, orally, akin to a mantra, a meditation and a prayer; her way of remembering; her means of maintaining hope for survival and redemption; fighting with what’s left of her memory. She lives and exist in a place and a condition where history, her story, is being systematically being obliterated.
Two gold hunters endlessly dig the ground with their shovels and hoes for the proverbial treasure that will emancipate them.
A father sadly waits for the death of her fragile daughter.
Awards
NETPAC Eastar Jet Award at the 13th Jeonju International Film Festival
On Screen Award at the Images Festival 2012
Articles
Cheer Factor: Lav Diaz wins in Jeonju
Top Films of 2012 (Sean Rogers and Andrew Proczek)
Reviews
Mark Cousins, critic and filmmaker
Festival Jury Citation, Images Festival 2012
The Ferroni Brigade (critics), Rotterdam 2012
Jasmine Nadua Trice, Cinemas of Asia
Oggs Cruz, 2012: Philippine Cinema, Lessons From The School of Inattention
Jesse Hawthorne Ficks, San Francisco Bay Guardian
Jessica Zafra, “Man is a Blot on the Landscape”, jessicarulestheuniverse.com
Laurel Fantauzo, “Letting Lav Diaz Happen to Us”, GMA Network
Marco Grosoli, “Terra Incognita”, Film Comment
Marco Grosoli, “ROTTERDAM 41 – “Florentina Hubaldo CTE” by Lav Diaz (Spectrum)”, Sentierisalvaggi
Tony McKibbin, “Temporal Density”, tonymckibbin.com
Andrea Picard for Images Festival
Tweets
Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012) – Diaz’s ultimately devastating investigation of the cruel contours and legacy of extreme personal trauma
— Jack Hughes (@torontomovieguy) August 15, 2017
Top first-time viewings, April 2017
1. Florentina Hubaldo, CTE (2012, Lav Diaz)
2. Laurence Anyways (2012, Xavier Dolan) pic.twitter.com/WGsaLuLaBc— Robert Humanick (@rhumanick) April 30, 2017
Florentina Hubaldo's scenes with the giants are insanely beautiful and sad at the same time.
— Jaime Grijalba (@jaimegrijalba) April 15, 2017
By design Florentina Hubaldo is aesthetically gorgeous & also an unusually grim depiction of human suffering. Never resolves the dilemma.
— Lang Thompson (@funhousejournal) April 14, 2017
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