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Classical music finds place in Indie filmBy VERA Files | The
Inbox Sat, Aug 3, 2013 By Pablo A. Tariman, VERA Files
The real- life stories of the countrys leading artists past and
present are rich goldmine for cinemamaterials.
It is a sad observation that mixing classical music and cinema
at least in the Philippines is
deemed not a good combination at the box office.
In the mid-80s, the late filmmaker Marilou Diaz-Abaya started
shooting a film on classical musicians
with the likes of Richard Gomez, Dina Bonnevie and Charito Solis
playing the roles of violinist,
pianist and soprano, respectively. Real life tenor Noel Velasco
was supposed to be in it.
When the producer heard an operatic aria while viewing the
rushes, she was horrified by the sound.
Is that part of the film? she asked Abaya.
Yes po, she replied.
The film was promptly shelved.
Poster of Boses. One is reminded of this episode as one viewed
the
homecoming screening of Ellen Ongkeko Marfils Boses in the
ongoing Cine Malaya Independent
Film Festival at the CCP. Believe it or not, the film is now
enjoying commercial run in SM Cinemas.
On the whole, the film is a good introduction to the violin as
violinist Ariel Basco (played by real life
violinist Alfonso Coke Bolipata) comes face to face with an
abused child, Onyok, played by Julian
Duque.
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To be sure, the music tended to over-dramatize the story but
then again it is the only music where
moviegoers can easily connect with the characters and their
story.
The gem of a young actor in this film is Julian Duque who plays
the abused child. The face all at once
elicits piety and the fact that he has to act without dialogue
made him an even more astounding actorin this film.
Playing a section from Vivaldis Four Seasons with his true -to-
life mentor Bolipata in the films
finale, Duque is a real acting find and a natural one at
that.
One notes that Duque was soloist in the same piece with the
Pundaquit Virtuosi and the Philippine
Youth Symphonic Band in one concert where the main attraction
was pianist Cecile Licad in
Beethovens Piano Concerto No. 2 in B Flat Major, Op. 19. It was
the same year (2008) Boses was
shot.
Marfils film is a brave one indeed and it is to her credit that
she was able to wield the story of mans
inhumanity to his own son with the powerful strain of classical
music which alas, figures in Filipino
films once in a blue moon.
( VERA Files is put out by veteran journalists taking a deeper
look at current issues. Vera is Latin
for true.)
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