Barber's Tales

Barber's Tales
Directed by Jun Lana
Screenplay by Jun Lana
Starring Eugene Domingo
Eddie Garcia
Iza Calzado
Production
company
APT Entertainment
Octobertrain Films
Release date
Running time
 120 minutes
Country Philippines
Language Filipino
Tagalog
English

Barber's Tales (Filipino: Mga Kuwentong Barbero) is a 2013 Filipino drama film by Jun Robles Lana. The film stars Eugene Domingo as Marilou, a widow who is forced to take her late husband’s job as community barber during the end of Marcos era. The film is the follow up to Lana’s film Bwakaw and second of a trilogy focused on the small town life in the Philippines.[1] The film had its world premiere and competed at the 2013 Tokyo International Film Festival, where it won the Best Actress Award for Eugene Domingo's performance.

The film had its commercial release in the Philippines on August 13, 2014.[2]

Synopsis

Barber's Tales is set in the rural town in the Philippines during the end of Marcos dictatorship, and tells the story of newly widowed Marilou (Eugene Domingo) who inherits the town's only barbershop from her husband- a business that has been passed down by generations of men in her husband's family. With no other means of support, she musters the courage to run the barbershop. But as to be expected, she fails to attract any customers. But a touching act of kindness she extended to Rosa, a prostitute who works in the town brothel, leads to an unexpected opportunity. Rosa, who now considers Marilou a friend, urges her prostitute friends to pressure their male clientele into patronizing Marilou's barbershop. The men have no choice but to grudgingly oblige out of fear that Rosa will expose their infidelity to their wives.

Cast

Awards and nominations

References

  1. ↑ "Eugene Domingo's 'Barber's Tales' is audience favorite in Italian festival". Retrieved 2014-05-05.
  2. ↑ "Eugene Domingo tells 'Tale' that made her take a 'semi-sabbatical'". Archived from the original on 2014-07-01. Retrieved 2014-06-27.
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