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Director
  
Maryo J. de los Reyes

Running time
  
2 hours

Screenplay
  
Irma Dimaranan

Language
  
Filipino

6.6/10
IMDb

Genre
  
Drama

Music director
  
Lutgardo Labad

Naglalayag movie poster
Writer
  
Irma Dimaranan (story)

Release date
  
June 23, 2004

Cast
  
Nora Aunor
(Judge Dorinda Vda De Roces),
Yul Servo
(Noah Garcia),
Aleck Bovick
(Rica),
Jaclyn Jose
(Lorena Garcia),
Celia Rodriguez
(Mrs Roces)

Similar movies
  
Nora Aunor movies, Philippines movies, Movies about love

Naglalayag (Silent Passage) is a 2004 Filipino movie that tells the story of a May–December affair between a middle-aged judge and a young taxi driver. Brilliantly acted by Nora Aunor and Yul Servo, the couple’s story brings to light society’s perceptions of gender, age, and class.

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Naglalayag has received nine major awards in the 2004 Manila Film Festival, including Best Story and Best Screenplay, and was also the major winner in the 53rd FAMAS Awards. The film also won for Nora Aunor, Yul Servo, and Maryo J. de los Reyes the best actress, best actor, and Special Jury awards, respectively, at the 2004 Brussels International Independent Film Festival.

Naglalayag trailer


Synopsis

Dorinda (Nora Aunor), a state prosecutor turned judge on the edge of a mid-life crisis, finds herself completely alone. Her only son Dennis resides in the US with his wife. She has been a widow for years but lonely she isn’t, she’d always tell everyone. Truth is, she lives an empty life.

Some twist of fate has her meeting Noah (Yul Servo), a young taxi driver who is poles apart from her own social and economic backgrounds. They guy is in mourning after his father, also a cabbie, died in the hands of a hold-up gang.

Dorinda is a judge and menopausal. Noah is a taxi driver and a virile 20-year-old. They don’t fit the equation. But, this what makes their relationship interesting, if not exciting.

Reviews

  • Indeed, no other actress since Erlinda Cortez, the wartime icon of Bagong Maestra vintage who had supposedly known the Stanislavski method, can hold a candle to Nora Aunor’s flame as she lights her way to a frontier all her own, contra mundum—against the world. But there is sadness in this illumination. As she plucks what seems to be a Forget-me-not in her garden at the end of Naglalayag, she realizes that she can only live her love in memory and that she cannot have it all. Not all women discern such gift at the moment of their gender’s proclamation and their body’s corruption.--Patrick Flores, Young Critics Circle
  • Naglalayag is a film which tells its story with the cinematic aesthetic in mind and heart. The film is filled with emotional rigor through which the affairs of the heart are dealt with, and dealt with intelligently. Naglalayag tackles a complex range of human relations premised on romance but problematizes it quite so rigorously so that love, though central in the lives of the characters is continually reread and therefore rewritten. -- Jojo Devera, film blogger

    • Cast

  • Nora Aunor as Judge Dorinda Vda. De Roces
  • Yul Servo as Noah Garcia
  • Jacklyn Jose as Lorena Garcia
  • Celia Rodriguez as Mrs. Roces
  • Aleck Bovick as Rica
  • Irma Adlawan as Charie

    • References

    Naglalayag Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA

    Naglalayag IMDb Naglalayag themoviedb.org


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