Basketball is quite popular in the Philippines and basing a film upon it is definitely not a bad idea. Timmy Harn did so, but extended his narrative in order to include a number of important local subjects, including black magic, drugs, racism, and colonialism. Let us take things from the beginning though.
“Dog Days” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...
“Dog Days” is screening at Across Asia Film Festival
The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...
- 12/14/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
Basketball is quite popular in the Philippines and basing a film upon it is definitely not a bad idea. Timmy Harn did so, but extended his narrative in order to include a number of important local subjects, including black magic, drugs, racism, and colonialism. Let us take things from the beginning though.
“Dog Days” is screening at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...
“Dog Days” is screening at the
International Film Festival Rotterdam 2019
The movie starts with a rather impressive sequence, where Carmen sacrifices herself in order to give her infant son supernatural abilities in basketball, in for him to have a great future, away from the blights of his natural habitat. The film then jumps to some years later, where Michael Jordan Ulili (the aforementioned infant) is struggling to make ends meet, having to deal with a coach that does not allow him to play, instead promoting his own son, and a guardian mother, Rochelle, who does not stop nagging him,...
- 1/28/2019
- by Panos Kotzathanasis
- AsianMoviePulse
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