Movie

Huwebes Huwebes

2019 · 100 min

A quiet, salt-air triptych that drifts between lives and slowly tightens into unease, asking patience and rewarding it with a lingering ache.

Tagline: Stories connected by the sea
Overview: Three men. Three stories. Noel, a fisherman battling with his curiosity, commits a grave mistake and ends up paying the price. Xander, a man assigned to track down an evasive drug pusher, finds the man’s blind daughter who is longing for her island hometown instead. Emman, a stranger seeking refuge in a seaside village, is befriended by a local who asks for his help but finds that there is more to the boy than what meets the eye. Huwebes Huwebes is a triptych of stories that embraces the sea, depicting different lives, all battling one war.
How it feels: Tense, melancholic, dark and earnest. Slow-burning and demanding.
About: Crime, isolation, guilt, survival
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
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Tone: tensestrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
darkstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 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: crime
isolation
guilt
survival
deception
Places: countryside
sea
small town
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: nonlinear
ensemble
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild