At first, there was Tagalog, Gym Lumbera’s short and, to his mind, unfinished narrative about the infidelity that comes between a husband and wife in their twilight years, shot on film and reflecting his own real-life infidelity.. And then there was a storm, a real storm and not a metaphorical one, that flooded his house and submerged, and subsequently damaged, the only copy of Tagalog. This damaged version, entitled English, became the missing piece that completed the film. The new work is named after Taglish, the bastard hybrid, some say corruption, of Tagalog and English, and has become a meditation on love and language and the ways in which we betray and destroy them.
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Gym Lumbera Director · Timmy Harn Production designer Jacyn Esquillon Production designer
First release November 13, 2012 · Produced in Philippines · Production Barong Tagalog
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Tito & Tita
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Barong Tagalog
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Philippines
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English
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Tagalog
Release dates
Italy · November 13, 2012
work-in-progress Rome Film Festival
Philippines · December 6, 2012
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