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Aug 22, 2022 · “Sonata” is about Regina Cadena, an opera singer who experiences a downward spiral after she loses the ability to sing. It is also, though, about going back to one's roots, of tracing an identity grounded to the song and soul of a hometown and the indefatigable ability of a child to teach an adult the sine qua non of living.
Sep 11, 2013 · Sonata: Directed by Peque Gallaga, Lore Reyes. With Cherie Gil, Richard Gomez, Chino Jalandoni, Joshua Pineda. A woman whose whole life is her art, but when she loses it she goes into a self-exile, only to be, hopefully, reinvigorated by a young boy daring to bring it all back.
Sep 13, 2013 · “Sonata” — an entry to the Sineng Pambansa National Film Festival 2013 — captures the poetic eloquence of life through art, solitude, and relationships. It promotes a language of understanding for people dealing with pain and loss, as well as those thriving in joy and discovery.
Sonata is a simple yet sensitive love letter to the beauty of music and life itself with a performance from Cherie Gil that’s her best in years. The film has its pacing issues in its beginning and an impactful yet forced ending.
Summaries. A woman whose whole life is her art, but when she loses it she goes into a self-exile, only to be, hopefully, reinvigorated by a young boy daring to bring it all back.
Dec 15, 2013 · Sonata was the closing film of the Kasimanwa Film Festival held last 14 December 2013 at SM Cinema Iloilo CIty. It showed Ilonggo films in Western Visayas to raise funds for Yolanda survivors in the region. Iloilo itself is a haven of hundreds of film makers—mostly of independent set-ups.
Directed by Peque Gallaga and Lore Reyes, with stars Cherie Gil, Chart Motus, and Joshua Pineda, “Sonata” certainly leaves that impression that we can all relate to when it comes to being in that state of our hopelessness. Lingering on in our own exiles, yet subconsciously also waiting for hope.
