Summary
Mababangong Bangungot or Perfumed Nightmare is a 1977 Filipino comedy-drama film starring, written and directed by Kidlat Tahimik, who also edited, co-shot, and produced it. It tells the story of a young Filipino jeepney driver from Barangay Balian, Laguna infatuated with the ideas of space travel and the West, who gradually becomes disillusioned after living in Paris. The film was well-received by critics upon release, even earning the International Critics Award (FIPRESCI) at the Berlin Film Festival.[3]
| Perfumed Nightmare | |
|---|---|
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| Mababangong Bangungot | |
| Directed by | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Written by | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Produced by | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Starring | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Cinematography | Hartmut Lerch Kidlat Tahimik |
| Edited by | Kidlat Tahimik |
| Music by | Hanns Christian Müller |
Production company | Kidlat Kulog Productions |
| Distributed by | Zoetrope Studios[1] (US) |
Release date | 1977 |
Running time | 94 minutes[2] |
| Country | Philippines |
| Languages | English Tagalog French German |
Perfumed Nightmare is the Filipino film that received the most votes in the British Film Institute's 2022 Sight and Sound Greatest Films of All Time poll (joint critics and directors' list), with Kidlat Tahimik being the second most voted Filipino director. With that, it is now also considered the as the greatest Filipino comedy film.
Plot edit
Kidlat, a jeepney driver in a village in the Philippines, dreams of becoming an astronaut and making it big in the United States. His dreams take him as far as Europe and to a series of events that will show him that his idealisation of what Western and European culture has to offer is far from real.[4]
Cast edit
- Kidlat Tahimik as Kidlat
References edit
- ^ "American Zoetrope Filmography". zoetrope.com. Retrieved April 8, 2019.
- ^ "Kidlat Tahimik's Perfumed Nightmare". REDCAT. April 20, 2015. Retrieved January 18, 2020.
- ^ "Kidlat Tahimik's "Perfumed Nightmare" Remains an Unlikely Masterpiece | SF360". www.sf360.org. Retrieved June 29, 2016.
- ^ "Essay Film Festival: Perfumed Nightmare (Mababangong Bangungot) |". www.archive.ica.art. Retrieved April 24, 2021.
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