I'm Drunk, I Love You.

JP Habac's I'm Drunk, I Love You. Has another film, Jerrold Tarog's Angelito ( a sequel to Heneral Luna), attached to it before it started. I decided to make another review for that short film.

I'm Drunk, I Love You is about Carson whose deeply in love with his best friend Dio. Before their college graduation, they go on a road trip where they discovery their feelings from each other.

As the title suggest, almost the entire film we see the characters drinking. The theme is generic friend-in-love- with-his/her-best-friend it has been done several times in mainstream films. But what's unique about this film is that it's realistic portrays of the said theme. It may has memorable lines but it never have any common mainstream film formula. It only has music and emotions. Actually this not just a romantic film, it's also a musical film. Music plays the background to tell the viewers what's happening. Emotions as a characters' dialogue whenever they became silent. The two leads ( Maja Salvador and Paolo Avellino) brilliantly conveyed that emotions especially at the end of the movie.

Director JP Habac's first full length film is one the year's best! I'm Drunk, I Love You is a rare Filipino film. Anyone can relate to this film especially if it happens to you in real life. It's worth a recommendations!

JP Habac's I'm Drunk, I Love You. has another film, Jerrold Tarog's Angelito ( a sequel to Heneral Luna), attached to it before it started. I decided to make another review for that short film.

I'm Drunk, I Love You is about Carson whose deeply in love with his best friend Dio. Before their college graduation, they go on a road trip where they discovery their feelings from each other.

As the title suggest, almost the entire film we see the characters drinking. The theme is generic friend-in-love- with-his/her-best-friend it has been done several times in mainstream films. But what's unique about this film is that it's realistic portrays of the said theme. It may has memorable lines but it never have any common mainstream film formula. It only has music and emotions. Actually this not just a romantic film, it's also a musical film. Music plays the background to tell the viewers what's happening. Emotions as a characters' dialogue whenever they became silent. The two leads ( Maja Salvador and Paolo Avellino) brilliantly conveyed that emotions especially at the end of the movie.

Director JP Habac's first full length film is one the year's best! I'm Drunk, I Love You is a rare Filipino film. Anyone can relate to this film especially if it happens to you in real life. It's worth a recommendations!

I'm Drunk, I Love You perfectly captures the raw, aching reality of loving someone who may never love you back. Maja Salvador shines as Carson, effortlessly balancing humor and heartbreak as she navigates her long-time, unreciprocated feelings for Paulo Avelino's Dio, who remains frustratingly oblivious yet undeniably magnetic. Their chemistry feels natural, making every conversation, every stolen glance, and every drunken confession hit hard. The film doesn't fall into grand romantic gestures or easy resolutions-it thrives in its honesty, showing that sometimes, love isn't about endings but about learning to let go.

Artistically, the film embraces a laid-back yet deeply immersive style. The indie soundtrack, featuring carefully curated OPM tracks, becomes a character of its own, amplifying the emotions simmering beneath Carson's facade. The cinematography captures the intimate, almost dreamlike quality of road trips and drunken nights, making everything feel personal and nostalgic. Every artistic choice, from the warm, dimly lit bar scenes to the open, uncertain roads, mirrors the emotional turbulence of loving someone from a distance. It's a film that doesn't just tell a love story-it makes you feel every unsaid word and every painful, beautiful moment of moving on.

If you haven't seen 'I'm Drunk, I Love You' yet released almost 2 years ago then this long weekend is the perfect time to do so especially if you will just be staycationing, so you can live vicariously through Dio, Carson and Jason as they go on a road trip to La Union before the first two finally graduates after seven long years - the same amount of time Carson has been pining over her best friend Dio. The movie was conceived during the director's nightly drinking sessions with friends (whoever said that being a drunkard will get you nowhere?), it is relatable in the sense that unless you have strict parents that you never tried to go against there's a big chance that you've:

*Gone on a road trip spontaneously, *Bad influenced a friend to ditch work due to said road trip, *Got drunk and said stupid things, *Woke up the next morning regretting saying such stupid things.

Director JP Habac explained in making IDILY: "I truly wanted to show true cinema and one that makes you think thoroughly. We have gotten many cute films. I wanted to make a film that would challenge and break RomCom norms" - and break the RomCom norms he did with this excellent piece of work that deserved more attention and love than when it was first shown. Paulo Avelino (who co-produced) even went on a Twitter rant calling out the lack of support from local movie theaters. But then again isn't that the travesty some of the greatest Indie films have to go through? Fight for the short attention span of the viewers who mostly gravitate towards manufactured love teams, preferably those that can turn on the waterworks. Which is quite unfortunate because it's brilliantly written so much so that I'm already laughing way too much within the first 30 minutes. The answer is yes if you were wondering whether I saw myself as Carson, stupidly pining over someone who will never feel the same way about me (come to think of, did I ever stop? lol,) and then as Jason, the wise gay best friend who shepherded his more stupid-in-love female friends into salvation (you can thank me by hitting the like button.)

The cast all delivered, anchored by the talented Maja Salvador (I see shades of Judy Ann Santos), Paulo Avelino (I dunno if it was great acting or he was just being himself, you know, a FB) Felix Roco (who I usually like and he was great here, but I would've wanted someone more natural for the gay bf, like Mikoy Morales,) and indie darling Jasmine Curtis Smith (for a small role, she filled it up nicely.) Cinematography was beautiful, as if each shot was carefully planned with some looking like they were telling a story in itself, and the color palette they used in some take were effervescent. The last 10 minutes where they were together and didn't say anything spoke volumes, much more than if they had a conversation (something like that last scene in Call Me By Your Name.) A sequel is already in the works, and can we all agree that this time, we will give it the attention it deserved?

This is one of the best filipino romance films, with Cheesy, Corny and Cliche filipino films everywhere. This is like a hidden gem of the philippines. A simple story with deep meaning. People who votes low here are probably filipino viewers who loves cliche filipino films who loves happy endings etc. This film is reality, people with good taste in cinema will love this film. Too bad most filipinos got bad taste in cinema they were exposed too much by cliche corny romantic films. Im filipino so I know it. I bet if this was shown abroad this will get a minimum of 8.