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Next Attraction

2008 · 90 min

A quietly layered, self-reflexive viewing experience that blurs documentary and fiction, asking patience and rewarding close attention.

Directed by
Raya Martin
Genres
Drama, Documentary
Starring
Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero
Overview
Purports to document the production of a short about a young man’s first sexual experience while doubling as a coming-out film and a multiply layered making-of movie.

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Directed by
Raya Martin
Genres
Drama, Documentary
Starring
Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero
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How it feels

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Tone
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • earneststrength 2 of 3
  • satiricalstrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • identity
  • sexuality
  • art
  • memory
  • deception
Places
  • big city
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • nonlinear
  • unreliable narrator
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language mild
  • Violence none
  • Sex mild
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror1
Humour2
Realism7
Romance3
Tension3
Darkness4
Complexity8
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
drama, documentary
Directed by
Raya Martin
Written by
Raya Martin
Starring
Jaclyn Jose, Coco Martin, Paolo Rivero
Cinematography
Albert Banzon
Runtime
90 min
Country
Philippines
Languages
Tagalog

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