ML (2018)

Directed by

Benedict Mique

Genre

independent film

Country

Philippines

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

R-16

Rating

5.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A retired colonel with Alzheimer's disease mistakes a modern-day student for a dissident from the Marcos dictatorship era. He captures and tortures the young man, reliving his past as a torturer during Martial Law.

tensedisturbingmelancholicclaustrophobicbleakdarkly psychologicalslow-burnunnerving

What happens

ML is a 2018 Philippine independent psychological horror film written, co-produced, and directed by Benedict Mique Jr., starring Eddie Garcia as a retired METROCOM Colonel suffering from Alzheimer's disease, leading him to believe that he is still living in the days of Ferdinand Marcos' dictatorship. He mistakes a visiting student, played by Tony Labrusca, as a dissident resisting Martial Law, and captures and tortures him, just as he did back in the 1970s. The film was released on August 3, 2018, at the 14th Cinemalaya Independent Film Festival. Along with Kip Oebanda's Liway, it is one of two Cinemalaya 2018 films featuring social commentary about the martial law, continuing the tradition of 2017's Respeto in light of the 2016 burial of Ferdinand Marcos and the rise of his children Bongbong and Imee Marcos in Philippine politics. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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