Gael García Bernal plays the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in Lav Diaz’s portrait of a brutal adventurer and his travels across the globe. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ticket for an ...
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This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. Leave it to slow cinema auteur Lav Diaz (2013’s four-hour “Norte, The End of History”) to serve you colonialism in ...
The audience doesn’t see Ferdinand Magellan for the first seven-and-a-half minutes of Magellan. Instead, the film begins on the wailing fear of the Indigenous people of Malacca at the sight of a white ...
The mythology of Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) has reached such an entrenchment in the West that the name is synonymous, globally, with exploration. Yet for director Lav Diaz, and for many ...
With his immersive latest, the Filipino director deconstructs the record of Portuguese explorer and colonizer Ferdinand Magellan. Despite our best efforts to go into a film completely blind, sometimes ...
When we first glimpse the explorer Ferdinand Magellan in the stunning new film that bears his name, he is lying on a corpse-strewn beach, looking near death himself. It’s 1511, and he has just ...
An acclaimed new film dramatises the pioneering voyage of the world-famous Portuguese navigator – a trailblazer who has been accused of "incontinent bloodlust". Few films are as epically gruelling as ...
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