Lino Brocka – Bona (1980)

Quote:
Bona, released in 1980, is perhaps his best–regarded work. The title character is a young, starstruck schoolgirl (played by Nora Aunor) who falls in love with an ageing actor (Phillip Salvador) and becomes his servant. She waits on him loyally in his decrepit shack, receiving nothing for her labors but the privilege of being his slave. When the actor decides he has had enough of her and attempts to toss her aside, Bona retaliates in a wholly unexpected, utterly justified fit of violent rage. As with many of his other independently made films, Bona reveals Brocka’s uncanny ability to join the personal and the political, to locate the overarching social statement in an intimate, deeply individualized gesture. He gave voice to an enormous swath of the Filipino population, one that had previously been given little attention by the nation’s filmmakers, most of whom were more concerned with the dissemination of fantasy than with immersion into real life. In so doing, he became a hero to an entire generation of filmmakers in the Pacific Rim and beyond.

– Steven Higgins, excerpt from ‘In Still Moving: The Film and Media Collections of the Museum of Modern Art’ New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2006, p. 279

1980 Bona_Lino_Brocka.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1h 26mn
Size: 	1.37 GiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	702x350 ~> 702x493
Aspect ratio:  	1.423
Frame rate: 	29.970 fps
Bit rate: 	2 000 Kbps
BPP: 	0.272
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AC-3 @ 256 Kbps (Stereo)

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Language(s):Filipino, Tagalog
Subtitles:French [Hard subs], English