Umaaraw, Umuulan is a relatively short feature-length digital film about a young director (played by Ryan Agoncillo) whose script gets rejected by producers and to make things worse, finds his girlfriend cheating on him on their anniversary, right before he planned to propose marriage. He goes into depression until he meets his dream girl.
Before watching the movie yesterday, I read reviews online and was unavoidably spoiled. (I won’t do that here. My synopsis is as vague and neutral as it can get). Once you know what the whole problem is, the entire movie would feel like a drag. Thankfully, as I’ve said, it was a relatively short feature-length film. It only ran for more or less an hour and a half.
This is not your conventional love story movie though, at least when viewed among typical Filipino romance movies, which makes this movie a breath of fresh air.
There were a lot of cameo roles in the movie from actors and actresses, most of whom we haven’t seen much of in the past years. Judy Ann Santos, the lead actor’s real-life girl friend, also has a cameo appearance towards the end, and when looked at that context, their encounter can be really cheesy and hilarious. The comic attempt on the other hand, especially by the Ryan Agoncillo’s supporting characters, were really in bad taste and it annoyed me.
Umaaraw, Umuulan is from Heaven’s Best Productions (of Harlene Bautista, Herbert Bautista and siblings) and was directed by Richard Arellano.
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exclusively sa SM yan di ba?
wala na sya sa mga sinehan. it just lasted for a week in theaters. noong nanood kami sobrang kami lang ata and another group of people ang nasa sinehan.
ang ganda ng teaser posters nila.
my sister wanted to watch it. she wasnt too happy to find out it was done na.
npanood qu un sa cinema 1 grabe ang gnda its perfect. . . haha dun aq na-inluv ky ryan agoncillo
ANG PANGET!! KASI ANG GUMAWA ABS-CBN MAGANDA PAG GMA!!
ang ganda kaya!! it’s something new.. and it’s good to know na kaya ng mga pinoy na gumawa ng movie na medyo deep…
how sad to know na hindi marunong pumili ng magang=dang movie ang karamihan sa mga pinoy… we should be supporting movies like this.
anong ibig mong sabihin? walang pinoy na filmmaker na deep until this movie? magaling ang mga pinoy ah, usually, nirereject lang ang mga ganitong movies dahil hindi bumebenta…
maganda ang story !!
nandito po ang REALITY!!
WALA sa hallucinations.
nakakarelate ako ,
may sense cia n palabas