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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido (Lav Diaz) - Movie Club 2018
Topic Started: Apr 21 2018, 02:56 PM (327 Views)
javierquintero
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Prologue to the Great Desaparecido (Prologo sa ang dakilang desaparacido, 2013) Lav Diaz


Prologue to the Great Desaparecido or The Great Desaparecido is a short film in preparation for the full length feature film of the same title. It revolves around the desperate and harrowing 30 day search for the body of Andres Bonifacio by his widow, Gregoria de Jesus. Andres Bonifacio is the father of the Philippine Revolution. (https://www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/project/profile/120704)

There is not much written about this short film by Diaz. The full feature length film later was later renamed A Lullaby To The Sorrowful Mystery.

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I hadn't realized that A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery was the followup to Prologue to the Great Desaparecido - I was wondering whether Diaz had dropped the project, actually. (Sort of like I suspect that his Storm Children project will likely go the way of Sufjan's states project.)

Anyway, Prologue really does feel like a trailer for a longer film, and given that it's Diaz we're talking about, half an hour sounds about right for a trailer. It's got those classic gorgeous Diaz B&W vistas, this time with a lot more rain than usual, but it does feel incomplete by itself. I haven't had a chance to see Lullaby yet, but I've got high hopes.
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I was really impressed by the tactile qualities of the imagery. All that rain!

The sliver of narrative that L.D. puts forward was well-chosen; that 'woman-scouring-the-countryside' trope has significant mythic/archetypal underpinnings -- she's a figure that stretches from Mexico's "Llorona" folklore back to Isis fishing pices of Osiris' corpse out of the Nile.

Good to know that Lullaby... is the companion movie to this -- without the tip, I too would have assumed it had gone unmade.
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Yes, there is a lot of emphasis on textures.

As mesnalty says, it feels like a long trailer. Actually, the inclusion of the word "Prologue" in the title (original and translation) asks for a special narrative license. It gives Diaz the freedom to make both a promise and a somehow-singular version of a "prequel" for events that will take place in a near future (apparently in Lullaby, in this case, although I haven't seen it). This "trailer" could also be taken as a version of history seen from one side or perspective, but some actions could take place in different time periods within the story (for example, the male character writing about the events in Cavite). If we call this a "trailer", then, can we find any trailer in the cinema-world that has more than one point of view or time frames, backwards, forwards or simultaneity, different to narrative ellipses?


It would be interesting to bring A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery in the future to this movie club project in order to connect dots and to discuss its general proposal in regards to representation of History.
Edited by javierquintero, Apr 23 2018, 02:48 PM.
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Not sure how many people would watch an 8-hour flick for the movie club, but it's on my watchlist anyway, so I'd definitely watch it.
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Thanks mesnalty for your enthusiasm!! I'm currently watching Diaz's films in chronological order. It'd be great to discuss A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery when it becomes available even if you and I would be the only ones here willing to watch it :toast:
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