Melancholia is a 2008 Philippine film directed by Lav Diaz

Lav Diaz

Lav Diaz or Lavrente Indico Diaz is a Filipino independent filmmaker, born in Datu Paglas, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines, on December 30, 1958....

. It won the Horizons prize at the 65th Venice International Film Festival

65th Venice International Film Festival

The 65th Venice International Film Festival, held in Venice, Italy, was opened on August 27, 2008 by Burn After Reading, and closed on September 6, 2008....

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Cast

• Angeli Bayani as Alberta Munoz / Jenine
• Perry Dizon as Julian Tomas / pimp
• Roeder as Renato Munoz
• Dante Perez as rebel
• Raul Arellano as rebel
• Malaya as Rina Abad / nun
• Irma Adlawan as Spiritist / store owner
• Cookie Chua as Patricia / kundiman singer
• Yanyan Taa as Hannah

Reception

Ronnie Scheib of Variety

Variety (magazine)

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called the film "Lav Diaz's latest madly uncommercial 7½ -hour magnum opus", and particularly complimented the "extraordinary final chapter". Scheib summarised: "Simultaneously lamenting the futility of change yet celebrating reinvention, the improbable Melancholia lingers on the brain."