The new trailer for director Erik Matti’s upcoming film Buy Bust was released on Facebook yesterday and it’s even more action-packed than the first preview.
This time, the trailer lets go of the plot entirely and doesn’t try to explain the premise, something the exposition-heavy first trailer takes care of.
It starts with a tight tracking shot of the anti-drug team at the center of the film. But while it features an ensemble cast including character actor Nonie Buencamino and mixed martial artist Brandon Vera, the star of the movie is Anne Curtis. This trailer leans into that and shows Curtis, one of the Philippines biggest celebrities, get into a lot of intense situations — neon-lit confrontations, side street operations, and a mob in the slums included.
The trailer also features a poem by German dramatist Bertolt Brecht translated into Filipino by Pete Lacaba and narrated by Chel Diokno.
For those who haven’t seen the first trailer, Buy Bust is about two teams from the government’s anti-drug enforcement agency and their drug bust mission in Manila’s slum areas. As you can see, very of the moment.
Matti, the film’s director, is known internationally for the political neo-noir crime thriller On The Job which was screened in the Director’s Fortnight at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival.
Buy Bust premieres in the Philippines on Feb. 8
Watch the first trailer here:
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