180 Ratings

Century of Birthing

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Directed by Lav Diaz

Philippines, 2011

Drama

Synopsis

An artist struggles to finish his work. A storyline about a cult plays in his head: Fundamentalism will destroy the world. The artist’s muse is endangered by his process. Will he redeem her, in the end?

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Century of Birthing Directed by Lav Diaz

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Stefan Drees's rating of the film Century of Birthing
Stefan Drees

A very challenging film with some references to other works of Laz Diaz - not easy to watch, but I enjoyed it. Because two of its central themes are the nature of cinema and the art of film itself (associated with a crisis and the question if the cinema even is able to show a kind of truth) it's much more fragmentary than other of Diaz’ films I've seen. But in the end for me everything fits together.
April 25, 2017 21:30
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afuchs's rating of the film Century of Birthing
afuchs

Stripped bare of anything that might not be necessary to experience the cinematic reality. Thereby prolonged.
January 29, 2017 09:08
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David Grillo's rating of the film Century of Birthing
David Grillo

A mediation between plains of existence that run across Diaz's work Art on the terms of being. Radically posing the ? between being and the conception of being a sort of panpsychism of creativity and Heidegger's metaphysics that foregrounds art. Subject ?'s artist The world was created by artist cause the world was created. Cinema is being/I'm being cinema. Subject prays to god/artist to be revealed from concealment
June 09, 2017 11:18
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Jason's rating of the film Century of Birthing
Jason

This would clearly be the most self-reflexive of the Lav Diaz movie-behemoths to which I have turned myself over. It is also, more potently, the one that feels the most like an address to the infinite. There is something empowering about there being a guy out there who goes out and engineers these things. CENTURY could also be a sublime companion to Jandek's READY FOR THE HOUSE.
June 10, 2017 01:57
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El Biffo's rating of the film Century of Birthing
El Biffo

"I am still searching for the truth. The pure cinema."
February 14, 2016 06:08
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Dr.Cinemaniac's rating of the film Century of Birthing
Dr.Cinemaniac

Like other Lav Diaz Films this one also deals with Multiple Themes. In This Film he mainly deals with Cinema and Artistic Struggle. Tough watch but its worth it. Watch this one only if you can dedicate your full attention to a Film.
June 05, 2017 15:38
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ysbil's rating of the film Century of Birthing
ysbil

Lav Diaz is really a maestro, it's hard to describe in a few words. Love particularly a scene in the film, in which a character declaim in monologue the eternal artist's philosophical and aesthetic struggle. The character is probably an alter ego of Lav Diaz, but what is impressive is the mundane, casual, everyday life setting, allowing the intimately spiritual to meet with the physical and intersubjective reality.
June 13, 2017 11:46
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Ludovic72's rating of the film Century of Birthing
Ludovic72

Qu'est-ce que le cinéma ? Son but serait-il de "se souvenir du monde" ? Rend-il compte de certaines vérités ? Lav Diaz se le demande à travers un alter-ego "à la recherche du pur cinéma", qui n'arrive pas à terminer son film (portant sur la foi religieuse, le corps, la culpabilité, la rédemption). Ce parcours de "foi cinématographique" fait écho à un récit parallèle sur un culte fondamentaliste. De l'art exigeant...
June 08, 2017 19:34
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