Peque Gallaga's movie is showing for free at the Old Ford Motor Factory from 30 November to 6 December, for free, 12nn and 4pm.
I was lucky to visit the setting for the opening scene's opulent party when I was in Negros this summer. The house belongs to Monsignor Gaston's family and is located in the middle of an hacienda.
Here's the first 10 minutes of the movie:
The house is still intact, undamaged by war, though it's very lonely now that no one lives in it but "Mons". The rooms are in their original state, so it's not so much restoration as it is preservation. Except for this cracked window...
...things are up to snuff, even the machuka tiles where so many feet have trodden, and the pillars.
Below is the pristine dirty kitchen, I love how monastic it looks...
...the patio...
...view of the hacienda from a tower...
...view from the second floor balcony.
That's "Mons", beside a picture of himself that hangs with other family pictures on the 2nd floor foyer.
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