Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga Engkanto

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English Title: Death in the Land of Encantos

Black and white, 540 mins

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A Filipino poet named Benjamin Agusan (Roeder Camañag) is the hapless native who returns to his hometown Padang to witness the aftermath of the super typhoon. For the past seven years, Benjamin had been living in an old town called Kaluga in Russia. With his grant and residency, he taught and conducted workshops in a university. The poet published two books of sadness and longing in the process. In Russia, Benjamin was able to shoot video collages, fell in love with a Slavic beauty, buried a son, and almost went mad. He came back to bury his dead-father, mother, sister and a lover. He came back to face Mount Mayon, the raging beauty and muse of his youth. He came home to confront the country that he so loved and hated, the Philippines. He came back to die in the land of his birth. He wanders around the obliterated village meeting old friends and lovers.

 

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Reviews

Ronnie Scheib, “Death in the Land of Encantos”, Variety, Oct. 2, 2007

Robert Koehler, “Spotlight | Death in the Land of Encantos (Lav Diaz, The Philippines)”, Cinema Scope

Oliver Seguret, “Diaz, The Eye of the Cyclone”, Liberation.fr

Srikanth Srinivasan, “The Films Of Lav Diaz”, The Seventh Art Blog

Gertjan Zhuillof, IFFR Programmer note

Lukas Foerster, Lav Diaz: mini-dossier, The canine condition

Allan Fish, “Death in the Land of Encantos – 2007, Lav Diaz”, Wonders in the Dark, Oct. 9, 2010

Noel Vera, “Kagadanan sa banwaan ning mga Engkanto (Death in the Land of Encantos, Lav Diaz, 2007)”, Critic After Dark, Nov. 17, 2013

Oggs Cruz, “Kagadanan Sa Banwaan Ning Mga Engkanto (2007)”, Lessons from the School of Inattention, Jan. 3, 2008

Noli Manaig, “DEATH IN THE LAND OF ENCANTOS (Lav Diaz, 2008)”, Closely Watched Frames, May 24, 2013

Jurij Meden, “Death in The Land of Encantos”, KINO Magazine

Andrej Šprah

Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, “Unmoving Cinema”, YCC Film Desk

Rolando Tolentino, “Sabayang Panahon, Produksyon ng Alaala At Proaktibong Cinema”, rolandotolentino.wordpress.com

Nil Baskar, “Death in the Land of Encantos”: Poetic Post-mortem