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The Woman Who Left ( Filipino: Ang Babaeng Humayo) is a 2016 Philippine drama film written, produced, edited, and directed by Lav Diaz. Filmed entirely in black-and-white, it was selected to compete in the main competition section at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival where it won the Golden Lion.
For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritable reclusion perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness has been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable for her. The year is 1997. Princess Diana dies in a violent car crash.
Sep 28, 2016 · The Woman Who Left: Directed by Lav Diaz. With Charo Santos-Concio, John Lloyd Cruz, Michael De Mesa, Nonie Buencamino. After 30 years of wrongful imprisonment, a woman plans to take revenge on her former lover.
Sep 8, 2016 · Movies. Movie Reviews. ‘The Woman Who Left’ (‘Ang Babaeng Humayo’): Film Review | Venice 2016. Philippine cineaste Lav Diaz's second feature in 2016 revolves around a wrongly convicted...
May 18, 2017 · May 18, 2017. The world of “The Woman Who Left,” the new film by Lav Diaz, is saturated with violence. There are killings, rapes and beatings, episodes of revenge and casual cruelty,...
Taking inspiration from a short story by Leo Tolstoy, Filipino maestro Lav Diaz forges a startling tale of revenge. Shot in the filmmaker’s rich, trademark chiaroscuro, The Woman Who Left is an expansive psychological allegory for the far-reaching ramifications of personal and national trauma.
Based on the short story “God Sees the Truth, But Waits” by Leo Tolstoy, The Woman Who Left is a film about people with nowhere to go. Set in 1990s Philippines, the film follows Horacia, an ex-convict seeking revenge on her former lover who masterminded her unjust 30-year imprisonment.
