One of the country’s very few commercially and critically successful independent productions, Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros, has made it to a British Film Institute list of top 10 gay movies from East and Southeast Asia
BFI describes the 2005 production as a “funny but gritty coming-of-age film.”
It stars Nathan Lopez, who plays the young boy Maximo whose infatuation with a police officer is put to a test when it comes between the 12-year-old’s loyalty to his family.
The BFI list also includes the following movies:
- Japan: Funeral Parade of Roses (1969)
- Japan: Gohatto (1999)
- Japan: Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
- China: Farewell My Concubine (1993)
- China: East Palace, West Palace (1996)
- HK: Happy Together (1997)
- HK: Soundless Wind Chime (2009)
- Thailand: Tropical Malady (2004)
- Malaysia: I Don’t Want To Sleep Alone (2006)
The BFI roundup coincides with a screening of Happy Together in London this month.
It is also a way for BFI to promote its new online video player (for £2.50), part of the Institute’s five-year Film Forever development plan to “help drive the growth of the film industry with a particular emphasis outside London,” according to a BBC report.
There’s a cheaper way to see the movie. The new website TaraNoodTayo.TV is also renting out Ang Pagdadalaga Ni Maximo Oliveros at $US1 for 24 hours.
