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Serbis

  • 2008
  • R
  • 1 Std. 27 Min.
IMDb-BEWERTUNG
6,1/10
2024
IHRE BEWERTUNG
Serbis (2008)
A drama that follows the Pineda family in the city of Angeles. Bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, and possible incest are all part of their challenges, but the real "star" of the show is the movie theater that doubles as family business and living space.
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Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuThe Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.

  • Regie
    • Brillante Mendoza
  • Drehbuch
    • Armando Lao
    • Boots Agbayani Pastor
  • Hauptbesetzung
    • Gina Pareño
    • Jaclyn Jose
    • Julio Diaz
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
  • IMDb-BEWERTUNG
    6,1/10
    2024
    IHRE BEWERTUNG
    • Regie
      • Brillante Mendoza
    • Drehbuch
      • Armando Lao
      • Boots Agbayani Pastor
    • Hauptbesetzung
      • Gina Pareño
      • Jaclyn Jose
      • Julio Diaz
    • 11Benutzerrezensionen
    • 66Kritische Rezensionen
    • 76Metascore
  • Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro
    • Auszeichnungen
      • 9 Gewinne & 15 Nominierungen insgesamt

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    Gina Pareño
    Gina Pareño
    • Nanay Flor
    Jaclyn Jose
    Jaclyn Jose
    • Nayda
    Julio Diaz
    Julio Diaz
    • Lando
    Coco Martin
    Coco Martin
    • Alan
    Kristoffer King
    Kristoffer King
    • Ronald
    • (as Kristofer King)
    Dan Alvaro
    Dan Alvaro
    • Jerome
    Mercedes Cabral
    Mercedes Cabral
    • Merly
    Roxanne Jordan
    • Jewel
    Dido de la Paz
    Dido de la Paz
    • Atty. Quintana
    • (as Dido Dela Paz)
    Buddy Caramat
    • Tonette
    • (as Buddy Salvador Caramat)
    Bobby Jerome Go
    • Jonas
    Jemmalyn Galicia
    • Susan
    Julia Taylor
    • Cross Dresser
    Nico Taverna
    • Santy
    Aaron Rivera
    Aaron Rivera
    • Ricky
    • (as Aaron Christian Rivera)
    Billy Ray Gali
    • Student
    Babylee Borromeo
    • Peter
    Arnold Toledo
    • Serbis Boy
    • Regie
      • Brillante Mendoza
    • Drehbuch
      • Armando Lao
      • Boots Agbayani Pastor
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    7giopotes

    Mendoza will pour in more of these pretty dirty stuff and guide us to an ending that doesn't seem like a real conclusion. We feel as if we just entered a tunnel of filth.

    "I love you..."

    The opening sequence of Brillante Mendoza's Serbis sets it all: the sex, the troubles, the creepy old cinema. And soon Mendoza will pour in more of these pretty dirty stuff and guide us to an ending that doesn't seem like a real conclusion. We feel as if we just entered a tunnel of filth and a cold shower would help.

    Serbis is about a family living in an aging movie house. This cinema is their living and the family will bend their backs just to save it. In the middle, each member encounters conflicts that will test them. The grandmother hopes for a chance of winning a case against her own husband, the sons fight over a shirt, a female worker discovers her pregnancy, the mother trying to control everything and the youngest child witnessing it all. Everyone's got problems and Serbis tells us how they solved it in their own ways. In short, there is no plot... just conflicts and characters to be explored.

    This Palme d'Or nominee is perhaps one of the darkest Filipino films ever made. Aside from that, it also showed off one of the best performances of a cast in the history of Filipino cinema. A list that boasted the sexy indie actors Gina Pareño, Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin, Kristoffer King, Mercedes Cabral, Julio Diaz and Roxanne Jordan will really make Filipinos want to see it. What's most noteworthy is the camera-work. Serbis, along with 2007's Tirador, has Brillante Mendoza's most stunning imagery.

    Serbis is a film that feels real, despite being undercooked and unfinished. Rarely do I see such a movie from my country's breezy show business. I'm very hungry for more.
    6petersoos

    Better than I expected

    I watched this movie with my filipino wife, she knew a many actors from there. I like the older pinoy movies, however they are mostly depressive and about hard life, but probably since this is not so old movie, it was not so dark. With a little filipinou humour style, i liked it.
    6renelsonantonius

    If not only for the theater

    Brillante Ma. Mendoza's latest film, "Serbis" (2008), may not even come close to the comparative brilliance of recent Filipino films like Jeffrey Jeturian's "Kubrador", Emmanuel dela Cruz' "Sarong banggi" and, yes, even Chito Rono's "Sukob", but it's still a curious work. For what the film lacks in plot and character development, which are really severely wanting, can be justly compensated by its prescribed milieu, which stands out as a character in itself--the movie theater run by the filmic family (no less named as "Family Theater").

    With its dirty and dank hallways, its vandalized walls, its crumpled and faded movie posters, its hideously flooded and murky toilet, its duplicitous screening and projection room, not to mention its regular throng of patrons who may or may not be "there" for the featured film itself and the always-prevalent traffic and crowd noise outside, "Serbis" could've been made--or could be watched--just for this run-down and out-of-luck movie theater. (If this were a good, old classic silent film, then I could've mistaken it as a film about the theater itself.)

    Mendoza may have seen--or at least, may have been aware of--Jacques Nolot's "Porn Theater" and Tsai Ming-liang's "Goodbye, Dragon Inn", which his film quite approximates in terms of setting and concern. But even then, "Serbis" doesn't have the self-criticizing humor of the former and the existential elegy of the latter, qualities which, in fairness to Mendoza, he may not have the intention of lending to his film. It's because from the looks of it (I mean literally), "Serbis" may be one of the many far-down-the-way descendants and variations of the Neo-Realist School of Thought (Naturalism, Abjection, Spontaneity, etc). But even then, unlike many of the best works from that venerated film-making method ("La Terra Trema", "The Bicycle Thief", "Shoeshine", "Salaam, Bombay!", "A Woman Under the Influence", "Rosetta", "Riff-Raff", even our own "Insiang", etc), his film actually eludes the capability of being situated in a wider social and political context, not even in a remote manner. Perhaps again, that's something that Mendoza may not even be set on achieving.

    To put it bluntly, "Serbis" escapes any explanation, logical or otherwise. To say that it threads on naturalism is to state the obvious. To say that it borders on the absurd is to overstate the matter. To say that it has a radical agenda being rallied is to make the point moot and academic. But then, to dismiss the film as pointless and inconsequential is to underappreciate Mendoza's efforts in coming up with a "different" film like this. I say different in that while it's too lightweight to be considered an "art" film, it's too deliberate to be regarded as "trash" as well. (It wouldn't be selected for competition in this year's Cannes film festival if it didn't have "something" going for it, I guess.)

    Still, I don't get it why some of the Cannes press and even the MTRCB here would be so bothered as to express aghast at some of the film's "disgusting" and "explicit" scenes. I contend that a couple of nude and sex scenes are just plain gratuitous, but the "disgusting" scenes being specified by the press are not even worth mentioning as to merit controversy. In themselves, these scenes just don't add up to a film that's already not meant to cohere. "Serbis" is definitely no "Irreversible" and "Humanite".

    What can be a source of comfort is the fact that even works of disappointment do have their choice moments of saving grace. In this scant film's case, it's the selected portrayals of Gina Pareno, Jaclyn Jose and, yes, Coco Martin. If these actors are even "acting" in the film, that I don't know. Whenever Gina and Jaclyn (the beleaguered mother and daughter proprietors of the seedy cinema) are in the frame, they really command such a thespic presence, without them exerting so much effort (if there's one), even having themselves willingly sailed (I mean literally) through the muck and mire of the film. The same goes for Coco (the aimless son of the older proprietor), specifically with regards to the factor of being "dirtied" by the film. His character rarely utters a word in the film;most of the time, he's just seen doing "something", quietly and intently. But it's in such activities, I hope, that we get to have a glean of his mental and emotional state--like in the slow and long scene where he cleans the hopelessly recoverable cinema toilet (a part of his being "dirtied" by the film). Even the decried scene where he successfully pops a painful buttock pus using a cola bottle gets to signify a kind of self-epiphany (which leads to his ultimate detachment from his family by the film's end)!

    Sadly, such choice moments of portrayal are still undermined by the fact that Armando Lao's script doesn't allow them to become fully-rounded characters as for the viewers to really feel their plight. These characters are made to appear as nothing more than like the strangers and acquaintances who we meet fleetingly and randomly in real life and then care for no more afterwards. If the fairly dignified thespic chops of Gina, Jaclyn and Coco are still led to feel that way, then what more of the other characters? This but true--like the projectionist character of Kristoffer King who is there just to be given a rough blow job by one of the theater's gay patrons and the ticket-booth attendant character of Roxanne Jordan who is there just to brazenly pose in nude in front of the mirror at the film's start. But then, didn't I mention earlier that "Serbis" could be just about the theater itself?

    In itself, "Serbis" is a graphic and natural document of a Filipino slice-of-life, but not enough as to become a true piece of cinematic provocation and radicalness as what the majority of films being shown in Cannes are meant to be.
    8croxas

    Good Acting

    This film challenges the actors to portray their characters realistically. The story revolves around them and there is no clear climax. Rather, it is a cacophony of events plotting the life of this family living in a run-down theater. They are barely subsistent.

    I have a sense of having watched a play because the entire scene takes place in the theater. Camera techniques and lighting has been well placed that it draws the emotion and atmosphere accurately. The use of hand held technique and the background noise gives emphasis to the chaos and discordant lives that is.

    Being a low-budget independent film, demonstrates to us that a good movie can be achieved and interpreted such as "SERBIS".
    6lastliberal

    A whole lot of stairs to climb!

    This is just the type of theater that one would expect to see certain politicians in the corner hiding from the press and their constituents. It is a seedy gay theater that shows heterosexual soft core porn films.

    We go up and down the stairs of this theater as the family that runs it plays out their lives. Director Brillante Mendoza won a few awards, including a Golden Palm nomination.

    Jacklyn Jose was very good as the daughter who keeps things going. She also has a very cute kid (Bobby Jerome Go). Gina Pareño won an Asian Film Award for her role as the matriarch who is trying to get rid of her philandering husband. Meanwhile, Alan's (Coco Martin) girlfriend (Mercedes Cabral) is pregnant, inspiring more drama and yelling. All of this occurs as they struggle to keep the last of three movie houses from going bankrupt.

    The ending is pretty anticlimactic and I really didn't see it coming.

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      Director Brillante Mendoza revealed that the sex scene between Coco Martin and Mercedes Cabral was simulated. "It was assumed by everyone that in the sex scene there was real penetration. The actors knew how I work, and if they were on a different level of their profession, they probably would have had real sex. But since this was the girl's first film and she's from a conservative family, she had done enough, so there is no penetration. But I wanted people to believe there was actual sexual intercourse, and it was so realistic that people believe that's what happened," he explained.
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    • Erscheinungsdatum
      • 25. Juni 2008 (Philippinen)
    • Herkunftsländer
      • Philippinen
      • Frankreich
      • Südkorea
      • Hongkong
    • Offizieller Standort
      • Serbis (2008)
    • Sprachen
      • Philippinisch
      • Tagalog
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    • Drehorte
      • Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippinen
    • Produktionsfirmen
      • Center Stage Productions
      • Swift Productions
      • Asian Cinema Fund (Pusan International Film Festival)
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      • 64.536 $
    • Eröffnungswochenende in den USA und in Kanada
      • 12.824 $
      • 1. Feb. 2009
    • Weltweiter Bruttoertrag
      • 155.156 $
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