{"id":61427,"date":"2015-09-16T18:03:52","date_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:03:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=61427"},"modified":"2015-09-16T18:03:52","modified_gmt":"2015-09-16T10:03:52","slug":"honor-thy-father-gains-positive-reviews-from-toronto-film-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2015\/09\/16\/honor-thy-father-gains-positive-reviews-from-toronto-film-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Honor Thy Father gains positive reviews from Toronto Film Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_61428\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-61428\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Honor-Thy-Father.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-61428\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Honor-Thy-Father.jpg\" alt=\"(Screengrab from Honor Thy Father's trailer)\" width=\"630\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Honor-Thy-Father.jpg 630w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Honor-Thy-Father-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-61428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Screengrab from Honor Thy Father&#8217;s trailer)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>MANILA \u2013 Honor Thy Father, a Filipino crime thriller film directed by Erik Matti and starred by award-winning actor John Lloyd Cruz, had its international premiere at the 40th Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF).<\/p>\n<p>The Filipino film received positive reviews from foreign critics.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Gravestock of the TIFF praised the film which he regarded as a \u2018suspenseful story of betrayal and retribution, a drama about familial reconciliation, and a commentary on the tenuous nature of newfound wealth.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Honor Thy Father was written by Michiko Yamamoto and starred Cruz, Meryll Soriano and Tirso Cruz III.<\/p>\n<p>Portraying a married couple, Cruz and Soriano gained millions through swindling. Deceiving churchgoers into investing in a get-quick scheme, the couple found their daughter Angel kidnapped with the return of the investments as the ransom asked.<\/p>\n<p>Gravestock lauded Matti\u2019s directing skills and Cruz\u2019 performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHolding everything together are Matti&#8217;s fluid, skilled direction and the tightly wound performance by Cruz, whose Edgar \u2013 disgusted by the greed and hypocrisy he encounters \u2013 seems always on the verge of exploding,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Another movie critic, Harry Windsor of The Hollywood Reporter, also gave a positive feedback to the film which showed the \u2018inequality and vigilante justice in the modern Philippines.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2013 Honor Thy Father, a Filipino crime thriller film directed by Erik Matti and starred by award-winning actor John &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":61428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,46],"tags":[249],"class_list":["post-61427","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","category-entertainment-ph","tag-rewrite","mauthors-cyra-moraleda","mauthors-philippine-canadian-inquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61427","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61427"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61427\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61427"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61427"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61427"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}