Stars: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Chai Fonacier | Written by Garret Shanley | Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.
However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...
Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.
However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...
- 2/21/2023
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
Children fashion designer Christine (Eva Green) fights complicated mental health issues after a deadly accident she was responsible for, but never got convicted of, because it happened somewhere else – in a sweatshop in the Philippines. This is of course a wild guess during the first 30 minutes of the film’s runtime, because Christine has no recollection of that particular event, and we build the bigger puzzle along the road that finally does answer all questions except the one about the legal ramifications. She is just presented as someone suffering from a number of symptoms beginning with a (selective) memory loss, quivering and hallucinations to something that makes her wear a Cpap mask at night. With her career on hold, and not much she can analyse without the material to talk about, Christine is a wreck and there is no way denying it. Between different manifestations of the malaise, she...
- 12/11/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
There is sharp social commentary in this fashion forward chiller but Lorcan Finnegan’s film is let down by a plot revelation visible from space
In the nicest possible way, Eva Green can suggest demonic possession with the merest arch of an eyebrow, or a wolfish flash of teeth. She is such a dark heart that when she turns up in this film playing a children’s fashion designer, I half expected her to gobble up one of the little darlings whole. But no, she is not the angel of death in this politically engaged London-set horror. Not to begin with at least; that role belongs to a Filipina housekeeper called Diana (Chai Fonacier).
Nocebo opens with Green’s designer Christine putting on a fashion show. As the kids bounce up the runway, she takes a phone call. Her face slackens as she repeats the horror of what she’s hearing (“… pulling out bodies?...
In the nicest possible way, Eva Green can suggest demonic possession with the merest arch of an eyebrow, or a wolfish flash of teeth. She is such a dark heart that when she turns up in this film playing a children’s fashion designer, I half expected her to gobble up one of the little darlings whole. But no, she is not the angel of death in this politically engaged London-set horror. Not to begin with at least; that role belongs to a Filipina housekeeper called Diana (Chai Fonacier).
Nocebo opens with Green’s designer Christine putting on a fashion show. As the kids bounce up the runway, she takes a phone call. Her face slackens as she repeats the horror of what she’s hearing (“… pulling out bodies?...
- 12/6/2022
- by Cath Clarke
- The Guardian - Film News
A new English-language Filipino mystery thriller “Nocebo” will be released in UK cinemas, starring Pinay actress Chai Fonacier as a mysterious visitor with a dark secret who brings Filipino folklore into the home of Eva Green and Mark Strong. Catch it in cinemas nationwide from Friday 9 December from Vertigo Releasing.
“Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan is proving himself to be a master manipulator of benign space, turning the familiar or domestic into a nightmarish labyrinth of horror”
Nikki Baughan, Screen International
“Nocebo is an accomplished film… The film features terrifying images that are truly frightening, and others that are profoundly beautiful”
Julia Olmo, Cineuropa
Nocebo
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium)
Screenplay by Garret Shanley
Starring:
Eva Green
Mark Strong
Chai Fonacier
Synopsis:
A fashion designer (Eva Green) is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong). Help arrives in the form of Diana, a...
“Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan is proving himself to be a master manipulator of benign space, turning the familiar or domestic into a nightmarish labyrinth of horror”
Nikki Baughan, Screen International
“Nocebo is an accomplished film… The film features terrifying images that are truly frightening, and others that are profoundly beautiful”
Julia Olmo, Cineuropa
Nocebo
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium)
Screenplay by Garret Shanley
Starring:
Eva Green
Mark Strong
Chai Fonacier
Synopsis:
A fashion designer (Eva Green) is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong). Help arrives in the form of Diana, a...
- 12/1/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
We’re nearing the end of the year, which means pretty soon we’ll be looking back on 2022’s best horror offerings. As always, we’re planning a whole lot of year-end coverage to take you through the holiday season, but don’t count 2022 out just yet. There are still a handful of upcoming movies that should be on your radar, so we’re not yet done looking forward…
Four new horror movies are releasing for Thanksgiving this week, but the biggest new release of the week is a brand new take on a classic TV series from a legendary filmmaker.
Here’s all the new horror releasing November 22 – November 27, 2022.
First up, Shudder has debuted the brand new original vampire movie Blood Relatives today, which was directed by and also stars Noah Segan (Deadgirl, Knives Out).
In the film, “Francis, a 115-year-old Yiddish vampire, still looks 35. He’s been roaming...
Four new horror movies are releasing for Thanksgiving this week, but the biggest new release of the week is a brand new take on a classic TV series from a legendary filmmaker.
Here’s all the new horror releasing November 22 – November 27, 2022.
First up, Shudder has debuted the brand new original vampire movie Blood Relatives today, which was directed by and also stars Noah Segan (Deadgirl, Knives Out).
In the film, “Francis, a 115-year-old Yiddish vampire, still looks 35. He’s been roaming...
- 11/22/2022
- by John Squires
- bloody-disgusting.com
Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date.
It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.
This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...
It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.
This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...
- 11/4/2022
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
"Nocebo" is an equally psychological and physical horror movie. It's mind and body horror, both surreal and all too realistic. Director Lorcan Finnegan's film takes a horrific part of the world, which is best not to spoil, and turns it into a suitably nightmarish setting featuring stars Eva Green and Chai Fonacier.
The home is another cage in Finnegan's new film. "Lorcan explored that a bit in "Vivarium,'" Green told us in a recent interview, referencing Finnegan's 2019 sci-fi mystery. "It was something like being the perfect house, but it's too perfect and you choke. There's something when everything is too perfect, it's not right."
Green is an actor who works with true independent spirits. The "Penny Dreadful" star has made some box office hits, like "Casino Royale," but she's also made several out-of-the-box films, such as "Franklyn," "Perfect Sense," and "The Salvation." With "Nocebo," Green stars in another...
The home is another cage in Finnegan's new film. "Lorcan explored that a bit in "Vivarium,'" Green told us in a recent interview, referencing Finnegan's 2019 sci-fi mystery. "It was something like being the perfect house, but it's too perfect and you choke. There's something when everything is too perfect, it's not right."
Green is an actor who works with true independent spirits. The "Penny Dreadful" star has made some box office hits, like "Casino Royale," but she's also made several out-of-the-box films, such as "Franklyn," "Perfect Sense," and "The Salvation." With "Nocebo," Green stars in another...
- 11/4/2022
- by Jack Giroux
- Slash Film
Stars: Eva Green, Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Chai Fonacier | Written by Garret Shanley | Directed by Lorcan Finnegan
Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.
However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...
Christine is a successful fashion designer. She lives with her marketing consultant husband Felix and their daughter Roberta in a huge house in the middle of Dublin. As Nocebo opens they’re out in front of that house with their expensive cars deciding who’s going to pick Roberta up from her private school. Life, as they say, has been good to her.
However, that’s about to change. At the showing of her latest designs, she steps away to take a call and a mangy-looking dog appears from nowhere to shower her with ticks before vanishing just as suddenly. Apparently as a result of a bite from one of those ticks she contracts a mysterious disease that leaves her sick, weak and suffering from memory lapses. Several months into her illness, Diana...
- 11/4/2022
- by Jim Morazzini
- Nerdly
There are two ways domestic service can go in horror movies: Either the innocent worker is walking into a diabolical trap, or she (it’s almost always a woman) is in fact the smiling angel of death, bringing doom to privileged employers who are oblivious of peril until it’s too late. In Nikyatu Jusu’s “Nanny,” which reaches theaters later this month, we get Scenario No. 1. In Lorcan Finnegan’s new “Nocebo,” about another immigrant laborer hired into a wealthy household, it is No. 2.
Similarly offering somewhat upscale genre fare, this first-ever co-production between Ireland and the Philippines is a diverting if not entirely successful mix of sociopolitical commentary with psychological and supernatural suspense elements, stronger in the realms of directorial style and performance than writing. Rlje Films opens the feature on 115 U.S. screens this Friday, with release to digital and VOD platforms Nov. 22, then niche streamer Shudder’s various territories later on.
Similarly offering somewhat upscale genre fare, this first-ever co-production between Ireland and the Philippines is a diverting if not entirely successful mix of sociopolitical commentary with psychological and supernatural suspense elements, stronger in the realms of directorial style and performance than writing. Rlje Films opens the feature on 115 U.S. screens this Friday, with release to digital and VOD platforms Nov. 22, then niche streamer Shudder’s various territories later on.
- 11/3/2022
- by Dennis Harvey
- Variety Film + TV
Rlje Films will be releasing the Eva Green psychological thriller Nocebo in the United States on November 4th, and to help you decide whether or not this is a movie you’d like to watch the weekend after Halloween, we have the trailer for Nocebo embedded above! And VOD release will follow on November 22nd. Variety reports that Vertigo Releasing has acquired the U.K. and Ireland distribution rights and will be releasing the film there on December 9th.
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium) from a screenplay written by Garret Shanley (Without Name), Nocebo finds Green taking on the role of
a fashion designer who is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband. Help arrives in the form of Diana, a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Green is joined in the cast by Mark Strong (Shazam!) as...
Directed by Lorcan Finnegan (Vivarium) from a screenplay written by Garret Shanley (Without Name), Nocebo finds Green taking on the role of
a fashion designer who is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband. Help arrives in the form of Diana, a Filipino carer who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Green is joined in the cast by Mark Strong (Shazam!) as...
- 10/28/2022
- by Cody Hamman
- JoBlo.com
Vertigo Releasing has acquired “Nocebo,” starring Eva Green (“Proxima”) and Mark Strong (“Tár”) for the U.K. and Ireland.
Directed by IFTA-winning filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Vivarium”) and written by Garret Shanley (“Without Name”), the film follows a fashion designer (Green) who is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong). Help arrives in the form of Diana, a Filipino carer (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
“Nocebo” has had festival play at Sitges and Cork.
The film is a co-production between Ireland and the Philippines and was supported by Screen Ireland and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. It is produced by Brunella Cocchiglia for Lovely Productions and Emily Leo for Wild Swim Films in co-production with Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew of Epicmedia.
Vertigo Releasing acquired the rights from XYZ Films who are handling international sales,...
Directed by IFTA-winning filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan (“Vivarium”) and written by Garret Shanley (“Without Name”), the film follows a fashion designer (Green) who is suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong). Help arrives in the form of Diana, a Filipino carer (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
“Nocebo” has had festival play at Sitges and Cork.
The film is a co-production between Ireland and the Philippines and was supported by Screen Ireland and the Film Development Council of the Philippines. It is produced by Brunella Cocchiglia for Lovely Productions and Emily Leo for Wild Swim Films in co-production with Bianca Balbuena and Bradley Liew of Epicmedia.
Vertigo Releasing acquired the rights from XYZ Films who are handling international sales,...
- 10/28/2022
- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
"Nocebo" is a new thriller, directed by Lorcan Finnegan for Rlje Films/Shudder, starring Eva Green and Mark Strong, premiering November 4, 2022 in theaters and through video-on-demand November 22, 2022:
"...a fashion designer (Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong)...
"... until help arrives in the form of a nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth..."
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"...a fashion designer (Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong)...
"... until help arrives in the form of a nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth..."
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- 10/26/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Lorcan Finnegan’s ‘Nocebo’ subverts the wicked nanny subgenre with a haunting horror story with a ruthless, relevant message.
“I am here with you.”
There are few bonds that are more innate and eternal than those between family. These fundamental connections can push the most ordinary of individuals to do impossible things. Parenthood–whether it’s the stresses that surround this responsibility or the idea that someone else doesn’t deserve it–is subject matter that frequently finds itself at the center of the horror genre. There is no shortage of evil nanny or creepy kid horror movies, but Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo strives for something more with this surreal, visceral Irish/Filipino hybrid horror story that contains some of the most haunting visuals of the year. It’s a powerful gut punch of a film that feels like M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant meets The Babadook meets Inside.
Nocebo...
“I am here with you.”
There are few bonds that are more innate and eternal than those between family. These fundamental connections can push the most ordinary of individuals to do impossible things. Parenthood–whether it’s the stresses that surround this responsibility or the idea that someone else doesn’t deserve it–is subject matter that frequently finds itself at the center of the horror genre. There is no shortage of evil nanny or creepy kid horror movies, but Lorcan Finnegan’s Nocebo strives for something more with this surreal, visceral Irish/Filipino hybrid horror story that contains some of the most haunting visuals of the year. It’s a powerful gut punch of a film that feels like M. Night Shyamalan’s Servant meets The Babadook meets Inside.
Nocebo...
- 10/14/2022
- by Daniel Kurland
- bloody-disgusting.com
Nocebo Trailer — Lorcan Finnegan‘s Nocebo (2022) movie trailer has been released by Vertigo Releasing. The Nocebo trailer stars Eva Green, Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Cathy Belton, and Chai Fonacier. Crew Garret Shanley wrote the screenplay for Nocebo. “Produced by Brunella Cocchiglia and Emily Leo.” Plot Synopsis Nocebo‘s plot synopsis: “A talented fashion designer (Eva [...]
Continue reading: Nocebo (2022) Movie Trailer: The Cure to Eva Green’s Mysterious Illness Reveals a Horrifying Truth...
Continue reading: Nocebo (2022) Movie Trailer: The Cure to Eva Green’s Mysterious Illness Reveals a Horrifying Truth...
- 10/6/2022
- by Rollo Tomasi
- Film-Book
Eva Green, Mark Strong, Chai Fonacier, and Billie Gadsdon Directed By: Lorcan Finnegan Written By: Garret Shanley A fashion designer (Eva Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Mark Strong) – until help arrives in the form of a Filipino nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal …
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- 10/4/2022
- by Adrian Halen
- Horror News
“Allow me in, and you will be free.” These are the chilling words spoken by a mysterious nanny (Chai Fonacier) who upends the life of a fashion designer (Eva Green) recovering from an unknown illness in the trailer for filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan’s “Nocebo.” The film’s two-minute trailer does a great job establishing an eerie atmosphere without revealing too much. While it is quite apparent that Green’s character is still in recovery from whatever has stricken her, much to the worry of her husband (Mark Strong), Fonacier’s sudden entrance into their lives goes unexplained.
Continue reading ‘Nocebo’ Trailer: Eva Green & Mark Strong’s Star In Lorcan Finnegan’s Latest Creepy Psychological Horror at The Playlist.
Continue reading ‘Nocebo’ Trailer: Eva Green & Mark Strong’s Star In Lorcan Finnegan’s Latest Creepy Psychological Horror at The Playlist.
- 10/4/2022
- by Rosa Martinez
- The Playlist
"I will be with you… always." Vertigo Releasing in the UK has revealed the first official trailer for a thrilling new horror mystery film titled Nocebo, from director Lorcan Finnegan - of the films Without Name and Vivarium (worth a watch) previously. This is premiering at the 2022 Sitges Film Festival next week, and will open in the UK later this year. A fashion designer is suffering from a mysterious, unexplainable illness, until a Filipina caretaker arrives at her home and begins to use the traditional folk remedies from her country. And then a terrible truth is revealed… Uh oh, sounds scary. Eva Green stars with Mark Strong, Billie Gadsdon, Cathy Belton, and Chai Fonacier as the caretaker Diana. This looks creepy!! The end of this trailer is a whole other level of crazy, with some freaky hints in the final few shots at what's to come. Enjoy. ›››
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- 10/3/2022
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
"Nocebo" is a new thriller, directed by Lorcan Finnegan for Rlje Films/Shudder, starring Eva Green and Mark Strong, premiering November 4, 2022 in theaters and through video-on-demand November 22, 2022:
"...a fashion designer (Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong)...
"... until help arrives in the form of a nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth..."
Click the images to enlarge...
"...a fashion designer (Green) suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong)...
"... until help arrives in the form of a nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth..."
Click the images to enlarge...
- 9/30/2022
- by Unknown
- SneakPeek
Rlje Films has acquired “Nocebo,” a thriller starring Eva Green and Mark Strong.
The film will open in theaters on Nov. 4 and on-demand and digitally on Nov. 22. Shudder will release the film in 2023. Both Rlje and Shudder are business units of AMC Networks Shudder focuses on streaming movies in the horror, thriller and supernatural genres.
“Nocebo” centers on a fashion designer (Green), who suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong). Help arrives in the form of a Filipino nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
The movie was directed by Lorcan Finnegan (“Vivarium”) and written by Garret Shanley (“Without Name”). It also stars Billie Gadsdon.
“We’re huge fans of Lorcan’s previous work and are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with him on ‘Nocebo,’” said Mark Ward, chief acquisitions pfficer of Rlje Films. “With...
The film will open in theaters on Nov. 4 and on-demand and digitally on Nov. 22. Shudder will release the film in 2023. Both Rlje and Shudder are business units of AMC Networks Shudder focuses on streaming movies in the horror, thriller and supernatural genres.
“Nocebo” centers on a fashion designer (Green), who suffers from a mysterious illness that confounds her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong). Help arrives in the form of a Filipino nanny (Chai Fonacier) who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
The movie was directed by Lorcan Finnegan (“Vivarium”) and written by Garret Shanley (“Without Name”). It also stars Billie Gadsdon.
“We’re huge fans of Lorcan’s previous work and are thrilled to have the opportunity to partner with him on ‘Nocebo,’” said Mark Ward, chief acquisitions pfficer of Rlje Films. “With...
- 9/13/2022
- by Brent Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Irish filmmaker Lorcan Finnegan broke out big at the Critic’s Week in Cannes with Vivarium and built the kind of post-screening hype that made it inevitable that his next project would be put into place rather quickly and draw a lot of interest. Insert Nocebo – a Ireland based production with portions shot in The Philippines that shot in February this year with the likes of Eva Green, Mark Strong and Filipino actress Chai Fonacier. The sophomore psychological thriller was written by Garret Shanley.
Gist: The film, which marks the first co-production between Ireland and the Philippines, follows a fashion designer (Green) suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong) until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer (Fonacier), who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.…...
Gist: The film, which marks the first co-production between Ireland and the Philippines, follows a fashion designer (Green) suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong) until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer (Fonacier), who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.…...
- 11/23/2021
- by Eric Lavallée
- IONCINEMA.com
Eva Green, Mark Strong and Chai Fonacier have boarded “Vivarium” director Lorcan Finnegan’s psychological thriller “Nocebo,” which is now in production in Ireland.
The film, which marks the first co-production between Ireland and the Philippines, follows a fashion designer (Green) suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong) until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer (Fonacier), who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Set between London and Manila, the film’s themes explore consumerism, human exploitation and the fast fashion industry, as well as the brain’s power in deciding whether to harm or cure the physical body. “Nocebo” is the antonym of “placebo,” and refers to the Nocebo Effect, in which negative thinking on the part of a patient results in a more negative outcome.
Written by Finnegan’s frequent collaborator, Garret Shanley, the film is...
The film, which marks the first co-production between Ireland and the Philippines, follows a fashion designer (Green) suffering from a mysterious illness that puzzles her doctors and frustrates her husband (Strong) until help arrives in the form of a Filipino carer (Fonacier), who uses traditional folk healing to reveal a horrifying truth.
Set between London and Manila, the film’s themes explore consumerism, human exploitation and the fast fashion industry, as well as the brain’s power in deciding whether to harm or cure the physical body. “Nocebo” is the antonym of “placebo,” and refers to the Nocebo Effect, in which negative thinking on the part of a patient results in a more negative outcome.
Written by Finnegan’s frequent collaborator, Garret Shanley, the film is...
- 2/25/2021
- by Manori Ravindran
- Variety Film + TV
After the huge success of “Die Beautiful”, there was bound to be a sequel, and “Born Beautiful” serves that purpose, despite the fact that it is more of a spin off, as it focuses on the character of Barbs Cordero, who was one of the best friends of Trisha in the first film.
“Born Beautiful” is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Barbs works in a funeral parlor, where she makes the faces of the deceased look like famous stars. After a rather surrealistic scene where she meets with the deceased Trisha, troubles with her boyfriend, Greg, who happens to be married, and her best friend dying after being struck by lightning, Barbs decides to leave her trans life behind and become a straight man. To do so, he joins the Way of Light, an organization who is specialized in returning trans women to manhood, through religion. During her effort,...
“Born Beautiful” is screening at the Slovak Queer Film Festival
Barbs works in a funeral parlor, where she makes the faces of the deceased look like famous stars. After a rather surrealistic scene where she meets with the deceased Trisha, troubles with her boyfriend, Greg, who happens to be married, and her best friend dying after being struck by lightning, Barbs decides to leave her trans life behind and become a straight man. To do so, he joins the Way of Light, an organization who is specialized in returning trans women to manhood, through religion. During her effort,...
- 10/17/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
“Respeto” is the directorial debut from Alberto “Treb” Monteras II. The story follows the journey of an aspiring rapper Hendrix (played by rapper Abra). We watch him hanging with his friends, getting in trouble with local gangs, falling in love, and most important of all trying out in the local underground rap battle scene. Although this synopsis makes it sound like a conventional coming-of-age story, it is not. The tropes are all here, yet Monteras is interested in something larger than just how an individual learn to express oneself.
Respeto is screening at the exground filmfest
At the beginning of the film, it does not only introduce us our hero, but also the town he inhabits. After taunting some local young delinquents, Hendrix has to run away from them. The mobile camera follows him swiftly while we follow him zigzagging through the crooked streets and alleys. The cinematographer Ike Avellana...
Respeto is screening at the exground filmfest
At the beginning of the film, it does not only introduce us our hero, but also the town he inhabits. After taunting some local young delinquents, Hendrix has to run away from them. The mobile camera follows him swiftly while we follow him zigzagging through the crooked streets and alleys. The cinematographer Ike Avellana...
- 11/24/2018
- by I-Lin Liu
- AsianMoviePulse
“The Human Surge” screened last year at the Locarno International Film Festival, where it picked up the top prize in the “Filmmakers of the Present” sidebar. Now, Argentinian director Eduardo Williams’ first feature will open in theaters in the United States on March 3. In celebration, IndieWire is pleased to debut both the film’s official poster and trailer.
Read More: ‘The Human Surge’ Is The Most Ambitious Debut Film of the Year – Review
The film takes viewers on a trip through three different countries and continents: Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires, Mozambique and the Philippines. The story focuses on the three main characters’ relationship with technology and how it has caused a lack of interaction with the real world around them. Cast members include Sergio Morosini, Chai Fonacier, Domingos Marengula, Rixel Manimtim, Manuel Asucan, Irene Doliente Paña, and Shine Marx. The film contains Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino dialogue.
Read More: ‘The Human Surge’ Is The Most Ambitious Debut Film of the Year – Review
The film takes viewers on a trip through three different countries and continents: Argentina’s capital city of Buenos Aires, Mozambique and the Philippines. The story focuses on the three main characters’ relationship with technology and how it has caused a lack of interaction with the real world around them. Cast members include Sergio Morosini, Chai Fonacier, Domingos Marengula, Rixel Manimtim, Manuel Asucan, Irene Doliente Paña, and Shine Marx. The film contains Spanish, Portuguese and Filipino dialogue.
- 2/16/2017
- by Yoselin Acevedo
- Indiewire
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