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| Miel Espinosa as Aguy; Photo Credit: Cinemalaya |
Cast: Bodjie Pascua, Miel Espinosa, Madeleine Nicolas, Anna Luna, Felix Roco, Soliman Cruz, Ian Lomongo, Ruby Ruiz, JM Salvado & Lorenzo Aguila
We miss the feel-good local movies of the 90's. Lately, it's all about romance, action, and family drama, that we forget how it feels to watch flicks about a harmonious community, or anything magical. When Camille Prats touched her neighbors to fulfill their wishes in Hiling and Jolina Magdangal cheated global warming to cover Manila with snow in Wansapanataym The Movie, we were blessed with scenes in Philippine cinema that will never leave our memories.
In this year's Cinemalaya, Pan de Salawal brings the magic back with its simple theme of helping others. When a lonely baker named Sal (Bodjie Pascua) suffering from kidney problems wants to end his life, while his neighbors deal with their own battles, a young and cute Visayan lass named Aguy (Ouch in English) came to the rescue. How? By hurting them..yup, in her own little cute way.
Che Espiritu's ironic concept for Pan de Salawal stands out among this year's feature-film entries. After a series of tearjerking dramas and thought-provoking ideologies, this felt like a needed catharsis from all of the darkness of others. Like a big ball of positivity, it's absolutely impossible not to smile while and after watching the film. It's a magical film that we don't need to know the origins of Aguy. She's so cute, that we assume she's simply godsend.
Miel Espinosa's Aguy is going to be in my top movie characters for 2018. She's a delight to watch. Her confidence shines, even when she's surrounded with veteran actors. She's simply a star in a great crowd.
Pan de Salawal is what our country needs right now. It doesn't need any satire, or a dramatic depiction from our history to be relevant. This simple movie about love, life and hope, will make anyone who watches it kinder to a degree.
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