Professor Capino will introduce the screening of this iconic gem of Philippine cinema.
"A great film that has truly stood the passing of time, highlighting the fact that Filipino cinema of the era was truly golden." - Panos Kotzathanasis, Asian Movie Pulse
"Brocka forces us to confront the messiness of love and sacrifice, and the ways in which we allow ourselves to be complicit in our own suffering." - Paul Emmanuel Enicola, The Asian Cut
Monday, April 21, 6:00 p.m. | Bona skips class to hang around the sets of bit-actor Gardo. When her father attempts to beat some sense into her, Bona moves in with Gardo, only to find herself more the maid than the wife. A collaboration between two greats of Filipino cinema, Lino Brocka and Nora Aunor, BONA was selected for the Cannes Film Festival 1981, but remained largely unseen, its elements long believed lost. The rediscovery of BONA is made possible thanks to José B. Capino, Film Studies Professor at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, whose research for the book Martial Law Melodrama: Lino Brocka’s Cinema Politics helped spur the film’s restoration. Professor Capino will introduce the screening of this iconic gem of Philippine cinema.
The Film Center is ADA accessible. This presentation will be projected without open captions. The theater is hearing-loop equipped. For accessibility requests, please email filmcenter@saic.edu