The mistress is a saint but the movie is a tease.
This is not a scene from The Mistress.
The Mistress, a Star Cinema production directed by Olivia Lamasan, dangles many titillating possibilities then leaves moviegoers doing exactly that: dangling.
The title alone is the stuff of Filipino melodramas: Querida! Kabit! Masamang babae! It could only be more Pinoy if it were entitled “D’Mistress”. In the title role is one of the studio’s hottest properties, Bea Alonzo, who up to this point has played mainly good girls. This movie signals her career shift to more “daring” adult roles, declares the PR machinery.
Starring opposite Bea Alonzo is her longtime screen partner, John Lloyd Cruz. The pair has headlined some of the biggest blockbusters of the last decade, and their drawing power is such that they don’t even have to pretend to be lovers in real life. None of that cheap emotional blackmail (Nagkagalit sila, nagkabati, galit, bati, repeat) we’ve come to expect from showbiz “love teams”—these are pros, and they happen to be fine actors. A lot is said of their “chemistry”. Oh please, if an actor is skilled, he can summon up chemistry with a fire hydrant.
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September 30th, 2012 at 20:42
love the chemistry with a fire hydrant comment.
“Bea Alonzo’s character is a bleeding martyr. How did this paragon of virtue become someone’s mistress?” exactly!
the studio wants to make money after all. they want the women watching to like her and be able to relate to her.
October 1st, 2012 at 00:21
Mistresses for Dummies or The Idiot’s Guide to Extra Marital Affairs.
October 2nd, 2012 at 16:31
hilarious video! hahahaha hahaha