The Red Shoes (2010 film)

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The Red Shoes
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Original poster
Directed byRaul Jorolan
Written byJames Ladioray
Produced byTony Gloria
Tito Velasco
James Ladioray
Starring Marvin Agustin
Nikki Gil
Liza Lorena
Tessie Tomas
Tirso Cruz III
Tetchie Agbayani
Iwa Moto
Monica Llamas
Irene Celebre
CinematographyIke Avellana
Edited byIke Veneracion
Music byJessie Lasaten
Distributed byUnitel Pictures
Release date
  • March 10, 2010 (2010-03-10)
Running time
97 minutes
CountryPhilippines
LanguagesFilipino
English

The Red Shoes is a 2010 Filipino film directed by Raul Jorolan and produced by Unitel. The film uses a non-linear narrative style, using history to frame a tale of lost love and redemption spanning close to three decades, starting in 1981 with the tragic accident in the construction of the Manila Film Center, through to the 1986 People Power Revolution, which ended the 21-year Presidency of Ferdinand Marcos, and finally concluding in 2009, which finds the major characters of the film facing the consequences of the theft of one of 3,000 pairs of shoes of the First Lady Imelda Marcos. The film won the Special Jury Prize in the 2010 Bogota International Film Festival. It participated in the 2010 Vietnam International Film Festival in Hanoi and the 2010 China Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival. The film was rated "A" by the Cinema Evaluation Board of the Philippines [1] and was also cited as Best Picture in the 2010 Catholic Mass Media Awards in the Philippines.

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Plot

On the last day of the People Power Revolution in the Philippines in February 1986, 10-year-old Lucas Munozca (Marvin Agustin) finds himself swept up with a euphoric crowd that has entered the grounds of the Malacañang Palace. Lost in the tumult, Lucas stumbles into a room where the president's wife, Imelda Marcos, kept her infamous shoe collection. He plans to filch two pairs but only manages to steal one pair—for poetic justice and for love.

Lucas gives the pair of red shoes from the country's First Lady to the first ladies of his life. The right shoe he gives to his mother, Chat (Liza Lorena), who ekes out a living giving manicures and pedicures while seemingly unable to recover from the loss of her husband, Domingo (Tirso Cruz III), the father of her only son, who was among the 169 workers said to have been buried alive when the upper levels of the Manila Film Center collapsed under construction in 1981 for the Manila International Film Festival project of the First Lady. The left shoe Lucas gifts to the love of his life, Bettina (Nikki Gil), the daughter of one of her mother's wealthy manicure home service customers.

Lucas and Bettina eventually become a couple years later and go steady for 13 years until a betrayal ends the relationship. At this point, the red shoes again become crucial for both mother and son in their attempt to overcome their respective loneliness: Chat, in trying to contact her husband from beyond the grave through Madame Vange (Tessie Tomas), a spiritist whose main job is being an Imelda impersonator; and Lucas, in trying to redeem himself for having lost his true love in a moment of weakness.

Cast

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Nikki Gil and Marvin Agustin

Production

In the third edition of Cinemalaya Philippine Independent Film Festival in 2007, a screenplay entitled 2,999, which told the story of a missing pair of shoes from Imelda Marcos's collection of 3,000 pairs of shoes, was one of the finalists that year. Unfortunately, the filmmakers were unable to finish the entry on time so they decided to pull out. [2] Marvin Agustin liked the story so much that he called writer James Ladioray to present to Unitel President and CEO Tony Gloria, who was drawn to the story and greenlighted the project. [3]

Jorolan, a TV commercial director, faced other challenges. Lead stars Agustin and Gil, contract actors from rival TV stations GMA Network and ABS-CBN Broadcasting Corporation, had to squeeze in shooting in their competing work schedules, stretching principal photography, which took only 20 days, over 10 months. Jorolan and Ladioray, an advertising creative director, had to shuttle in between their regular work and the movie set to complete the shoot. [4]

Ladioray adds, "I didn't want to make an outrightly political movie. That part in our history was very decisive, I wanted to make a story that can use that turning point as a point of redemption for everyone. The shoes are a metaphor — I wanted to ask the question, would you steal for love?" [5]

Jorolan speaks of another metaphor that was crucial to the story, the bridge. "A bridge connotes relationship, whether it's been cut short, it still holds its purpose, similar to a relationship that's been broken off. (It still holds significance)." [5]

Awards and recognition

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  2. ↑ Dimaculangan, Jocelyn (2010-03-04). "Marvin Agustin and Nikki Gil search for the perfect fit in The Red Shoes". Philippine Entertainment Portal. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
  3. ↑ "'The Red Shoes' – Unitel's stepped up love story". The Manila Bulletin. 2010-03-04. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
  4. ↑ San Diego, Bayani Jr. (2010-02-28). "'Red Shoes' made for walking". The Philippine Daily Inquirer. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
  5. 1 2 Lei, Joanna (2010-03-11). "If the red shoes fit". The Daily Tribune. Archived from the original on March 16, 2010. Retrieved 2010-03-12.
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