MIKE DE LEON
Portrait of a Filipino Filmmaker
In eight films: Itim (The Rites of May) , It Was a Dream , Kakabakaba Ka Ba? (Shiver) , Kisapmata , Batch '81 , Paradise Is Not Shared , Third World Heroes , Citizen Jake
Born in 1947 in Manila, Mike De Leon is a child of the ball: his father is the producer Manuel De Leon and his grandmother, Narcisa De Leon, the founder of LVN Pictures, a legendary Filipino studio. Since ltim ( The Rites of May ), his first feature film made in 1976, Mike De Leon has addressed social and political issues through powerful and sometimes disturbing images. Spanning almost five decades, his filmography scrutinizes the evolution of Filipino society with disconcerting audacity, resorting to both genre cinema and auteur films.
Charles Tesson began as a critic at Cahiers du cinéma in 1979 and was its editor-in-chief from 1998 to 2003. He was the general delegate of the Semaine de la Critique from 2011 to 2021 and is a lecturer in the history and aesthetics of cinema at the Sorbonne Nouvelle University. He is the co-editor-in-chief, with Olivier Assayas, of the special issue of Cahiers du cinéma, "Made in Hong Kong" (1984) and co-edited the book L'Asie à Hollywood (2001). He is the author of several books on cinema: Satyajit Ray (1992), Luis Buiiuel (1995), El (1996), Photogénie de la Série B (1997), Théâtre et cinéma (2007), Akira Kurosawa (2008).