Norte, The End of History (2013)

Norte, The End of History: Directed by Lav Diaz. With Sid Lucero, Archie Alemania, Angeli Bayani, Mailes Kanapi. An embittered law student commits a brutal double murder; a family man takes the fall and is forced into a harsh prison sentence; a mother and her two children wander the countryside looking for some kind of redemption.

“Niemand bleibt hier. Who said that?nA narrator in images widening the knowledge of the other side of the world. Incredible suction and depth in some pictures. Deeply related with Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr. And Jacques Tati?nBut most of the time the images co-exist with a story. Sometimes even words. And expressions. Lav Diaz fumbles in terms of dialogue and instruction of actors. Sometimes it slips into the conventional.”