Ishmael Bernal (30 September 1938 – 2 June 1996) was an acclaimed Filipino film, stage and television director. He was also an actor and screenwriter. Noted for his melodramas particularly with feminist and moral issues, his 1982 film Himala (Miracle) is often cited as one of the greatest Filipino films of all time. —Wikipedia
Nora Aunor plays a girl who claims to have seen the Virgin Mary and this causes quite a stir nationally and internationally. A gripping tale on the hallucinatory effects of religion and the mass brainwashing that it could entail.
Scalding portraiture of a woman on the precipice of deification (or was she there and then she blundered?). Groundswell of belated advocacy for film is still merited. I would say one of our country's most quoted films.
the best film of all time...love the sincere presentation of the religious fanaticism of the Filipinos ...great acting..great story..
