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The movie “Filipiñana” pits a country club’s members against its staff, using a golf course to explore the Philippines’ deep divides over land and class. A boy rushing to line up for water in a drought-stricken Manila neighborhood is nearly hit by a van carrying foreign tourists to a suburban golf course with sprinklers on verdant greens. So begins Rafael Manuel’s debut feature film, “Filipiñana,” which begins its U.S. theatrical release in New York on Friday. It follows a 17-year-old girl from a far-off province who finds work at a golf club near Manila, the Philippine capital, after her family is evicted from land they had once farmed. “Filipiñana” is already one of the most highly anticipated Filipino films in recent years. It satirizes the exclusive enclaves of the wealthy, examining tensions between a country club’s guests and its staff in a similar vein as “The White Lotus,” an HBO drama whose latest season was set at a luxury resort in Thailand .
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The movie “Filipiñana” pits a country club’s members against its staff, using a golf course to explore the Philippines’ deep divides over land and class. A boy rushing to line up for water in a drought-stricken Manila neighborhood is nearly hit by a van carrying foreign tourists to a suburban golf course with sprinklers on verdant greens. So begins Rafael Manuel’s debut feature film, “Filipiñana,” which begins its U.S. theatrical release in New York on Friday. It follows a 17-year-old girl from a far-off province who finds work at a golf club near Manila, the Philippine capital, after her family is evicted from land they had once farmed. “Filipiñana” is already one of the most highly anticipated Filipino films in recent years. It satirizes the exclusive enclaves of the wealthy, examining tensions between a country club’s guests and its staff in a similar vein as “The White Lotus,” an HBO drama whose latest season was set at a luxury resort in Thailand .
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