{"product_id":"715515216111","title":"Manila in the Claws of Light (DVD)","description":"Lino Brocka achieved international acclaim with this candid portrait of 1970s Manila, a breakout example of the more serious-minded filmmaking the director had turned to after building a career on mainstream movies he described as “soaps.” A young fisherman from a provincial village arrives in the capital on a quest to track down his girlfriend, who was lured there with the promise of work and hasn’t been heard from since. In the meantime, he takes a low-wage job at a construction site and witnesses life on the streets, where death strikes without warning, corruption and exploitation are commonplace, and protests hint at escalating civil unrest. Mixing visceral, documentary-like realism with the narrative focus of Hollywood noir and melodrama, \"Manila in the Claws of Light\" is a howl of anguish from one of the most celebrated figures in Philippine cinema.Manila in the Claws of Light\u003cspan class=\"redactor-invisible-space\" style=\"background-color: initial;\"\u003e \"was r\"\u003c\/span\u003e\"estored in 2013 by the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the Cineteca di Bologna\/L’Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project, LVN, Cinema Artists Philippines, and Mike De Leon. Restoration funded by Doha Film Institute.\"","brand":"Cinema 1 Inc.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44872114012239,"sku":"715515216111","price":32.97,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0680\/2787\/5407\/files\/715515216111_8b23a3fc-5700-4515-bd86-eff0f7cae61b.jpg?v=1773777863","url":"https:\/\/cinema1.ca\/products\/715515216111","provider":"Cinema 1 Inc.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}