Reckless Natarajan Pictures

28/01/2025

Come la Notte in 75th Berlinale - Berlin International Film Festival!

We are thrilled to announce that our film Come la Notte (Where the Night Stands Still) has been selected to compete in the Perspectives section of the 75th Berlin International Film Festival.

Perspectives is a new section in Berlinale dedicated to debut or second work by filmmakers around the world.

The film is produced by pelircula, Il Mio Filippino Collective, and Ozono, and co-produced by Reckless Natarajan Pictures. The film is written, produced, and directed by Liryc Dela Cruz.

Where the Night Stands Still is an intimate exploration of relationships, memories, and the colonial legacies shaping the Filipino diaspora experience. We are deeply grateful to our incredible cast, crew, and everyone who supported this vision. See you in Berlin! 🐻

This film is greatly supported by Spazio '500 per le Arti and supported by Amsterdam Film Meeting Casa Fiamma Triad WOW Shawala



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29/11/2024

Salome is a slow burning film that centers on the struggle of art critic and historian Jose Andres Galicia (played by Perry Dizon, an actor in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar winning film Drive My Car) who attempts to retrieve his memories at the height of the commemoration of the 500th year since Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in the Philippines. Traversing a multitude of themes –from colonization to the study of beauty, myth, religion to gender politics and contemporary life– the film is the director's rumination of the forces that impact our destiny as a people.

Salome will have its international premiere at the 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival which opens today. Catch Salome on December 3, 12:45pm at . RAM Botero, Tommy Alejandrino and Golden Globe nominee Dolly de Leon (Ruben Ostlund's Triangle of Sadness) joins Dizon in the cast.

08/11/2024

We are happy to announce that Salome will have its international premiere at the 19th Jogja-NETPAC Asian Film Festival in Indonesia.

http://jaff-filmfest.org/salome/

21/10/2024

Salome to screen at the Ngilngig Asian Fantastic Film Festival.

12/09/2024

"[Mangansakan] sidesteps the conventions of an industry too often preoccupied with technical polish, instead allowing the film’s deeper resonance to emerge. In a time when even independent cinema prioritizes aesthetic precision over substance, “Salome” charts a more subversive course. Its quiet, haunting layers speak to something beyond the personal struggles of its protagonist—it taps into a deeper historical wound, a lingering echo of colonial oppression. Through the spectral presence of Salome, a symbol of defiance against both local and foreign powers, the film challenges its characters—and its viewers—to engage with the past in a way that demands action, not just reflection."

"Salome" threads the past and the present, demanding to be seen beyond the limits of its form. Film Review: Salome (2024) by Gutierrez Mangansakan II

08/09/2024

SEPTEMBER 8 SCREENING SCHEDULE

You can watch Salome today at different cinemas in the metro.

07/09/2024

SEPTEMBER 7 SCREENING SCHEDULE

You can watch Salome today at these cinemas.

1pm
Gateway Cinema 18
SM Fairview Cinema 5

3:30pm
Robinsons Manila Cinema 1

6pm
SM Southmall Cinema 5

8:30m
SM North EDSA Cinema 7

06/09/2024

The trusted film reviewer Philbert Dy writes about Salome:

"The film fully plays its post-colonial hand, taking us into an illusion that breaks another illusion: imagery crafted to refute so much of what we've been taught, running counter to the images contrived by colonists seeking control. Here we have a legend, a myth, a person from fiction made real, or maybe someone real made into fiction. The film blurs those lines, pointing to real history while playing with stories, bringing light to real issues while spinning its tales...But if you can get on the film's wavelength, it tells a story that rages against the legacies of colonialism, and shows us a kind of faith that feels liberating."

Join us today for the Sinag Maynila gala of Salome, 6pm at Gateway Mall Cinema 17.

06/09/2024

Fred Hawson on Salome:

"This talky, cerebral film may not be for everyone. There was hardly any action going on, and less-attuned viewers may quickly lose interest. However, I, for one, was caught up in its insightful conversations about art, history, and culture and its dwindling significance in the increasingly material world now."

September 6, 2024 Andres (Perry Dizon) was a middle-aged art historian who had been diagnosed to have alcoholic amnesia, rendering him a sha...

04/09/2024

SEPTEMBER 5 SCREENING SCHEDULE
Sinag Maynila 2024

You can watch Salome at these theaters:

1pm
Market Market Cinema 2

3:30pm
Gateway Cinema 18
Robinsons Galleria Cinema 4

6pm
SM Sta. Mesa Cinema 2
SM Fairview Cinema 5

8:30pm
SM Manila Cinema 5

03/09/2024

SEPTEMBER 4 SCREENING SCHEDULE
Sinag Maynila 2024

You can watch Salome today at these theaters:

1pm
Gateway Mall Cinema 17

6pm
SM Southmall Cinema 5

8:30pm
Robinsons Manila Cinema 1
SM Fairview Cinema 5
SM North EDSA Cinema 7

03/09/2024

Gutierrez Mangansakan II continues his slow contemplative cinema with Salome, a film that centers on the struggle of art critic and historian Jose Andres Galicia (played by Perry Dizon, an actor in Ryusuke Hamaguchi's Oscar winning film Drive My Car) who attempts to retrieve his memories at the height of the commemoration of the 500th year since Ferdinand Magellan's arrival in the Philippines. Traversing a multitude of themes –from colonization to the study of beauty, myth, religion to gender politics and contemporary life– the film is the director's rumination of the forces that impact our destiny as a people.

Salome also stars RAM Botero, Dan Lester Albarracin, Cinemalaya 2022 best actor Tommy Alejandrino, and Golden Globes nominee Miss Dolly de Leon.

Catch it at the 2024 Sinag Maynila Film Festival starting tomorrow September 4 in various cinemas in Metro Manila.

03/09/2024

Join us at the Sinag Maynila 2024 gala of Salome on September 6, 6pm, at Gateway Mall Cinema 17.

The film stars Perry Dizon, RAM Botero, Tommy Alejandrino, Dan Lester Albarracin, and Miss Dolly de Leon.

In the film, a 19th century woman named Salome whose identity has been shrouded in myth and legend becomes the center of a cult that has polarized a community. Like a jigsaw puzzle, a town pieces together myth, memory and aspirations to know the woman that has captured everyone’s imagination.

31/08/2024

BEHIND THE SCENES

Salome was shot in different locations in the Marilog District of Davao City, General Santos City and the municipality of Tupi, in South Cotabato. It was a skeleton crew, something manageable in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic, with everyone functioning beyond their scope of work.

Watch Salome from September 4 to 10, 2024 which is competing at the Sinag Maynila Film Festival.

29/08/2024

Salome is an offshoot of a much larger project entitled Faramanis –The Spellcaster of Tamontaca, in which I reimagined the characters of Elias and Salome in Jose Rizal's Noli Me Tangere as star crossed lovers in the Jesuit Mission at Tamontaca, in Cotabato, towards the end of the Spanish colonial period. In the original concept, her disappearance is subject to speculation which, to my writer's mind, became pregnant with possibilities. What if her disappearance is attributed some superstitious and magical qualities? What if a cult is formed from these beliefs? Fast forward 125 years later, thus, the film Salome.

Salome is a continuation of my musing on our colonial past, the power relations between colonizer and colonized, that continue to influence both the physical and psychic destiny of our people.

Watch it at the Sinag Maynila Film Festival from September 4 to 10, 2024 at Gateway Mall 2 Cinema and other cinemas in Metro Manila.

27/08/2024

TRAILER

A 19th century woman named Salome whose identity has been shrouded in myth and legend becomes the center of a cult that has polarized a community. Like a jigsaw puzzle, a town pieces together myth, memory and aspirations to know the woman that has captured everyone’s imagination.

Reckless Natarajan Pictures

with support from

Film Development Council of the Philippines - CreatePHFilms
National Commission for Culture and the Arts

in cooperation with Origane Films

present

A film by Gutierrez Mangansakan II

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Starring– Perry Dizon, RAM Botero, Tommy Alejandrino, Dan Lester Albarracin, Bagane Fiola, Jhoanna Lynn Cruz and Miss Dolly de Leon

Producers– Elreen Bendisula-Barredo, Moises Charles Hollite and Teng Mangansakan

Co-Producer– Bagane Fiola

Director of Photography– Bagane Fiola

Assistant Director– Trishtan Rom Perez

Editor– Edmund Mabanag Telmo

Production Designer– Paramata Endawan

Sound Designer– Arnel Barbarona

Music–Rotsanjani Mojica

A Sinag Maynila 2024 finalist

20/08/2024

TEASER

"Salome is a continuation of my musings on our colonial past, the power relations between colonizer and colonized, that continue to influence both the physical and psychic destiny of our people."

-Teng Mangansakan
Director, Salome

09/08/2024

Salome is a finalist in Sinag Maynila this year. In the film, a 19th century woman named Salome whose identity has been shrouded in myth and legend becomes the center of a cult that has polarized a community. Like a jigsaw puzzle, a town pieces together myth, memory and aspirations to know the woman that has captured everyone’s imagination.

It stars Perry Dizon, RAM Botero, Tommy Alejandrino and Miss Dolly de Leon. Directed by Teng Mangansakan. A Reckless Natarajan Pictures production.