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Serbis
Directed by
Brillante Ma Mendoza
R
2008
90m
Drama
,
Romance
6.0
79%
52%
6.1
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The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.
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Serbis Ratings & Reviews
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
There's a concentration on the immediate and the detail, and the larger social picture is entirely missing, so one is irresistibly drawn to the conclusion that the rot of Filipino society is the fault of the ordinary Filipino.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Serbis, though humorous at times, suffers from Mendoza's wanton vagueness.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Mendoza's roving camera captures his characters strife and pain with an unblinking eye.
Eye for Film
Amber Wilkinson
The number of characters involved leaves the plotlines strung out and little emotion for the audience to cling to.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Part-telenovela, part outlandish screwball comedy, part soft-porno, but completely without a road map, Serbis evokes Pedro Almodóvar, Tennessee Williams, and 1940s and '50s Hollywood.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what "Serbis" does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
A unique and artistic treatment of gritty family survival but one that will turn away viewers with its carnal setting and sand-blasted treatment of the human condition.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Often drags with too many poorly developed characters its convoluted, unfocused plot. If it were more character-driven and had a sharper screenplay, it would have been a much more captivating drama.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This isn't a family -- or a film -- you'll easily forget.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Filipino movie Serbis is gentle, bawdy and at times rambunctiously, ticklishly rude.
The Screengrab
Nick Schager
A scraggly, messy, often aimless, and yet consistently amusing and engaging work of black comedy-cum-social-realism.
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Though [director] Mendoza doesn't care to resolve all of the many subplots he's jugging, the film gives a complete picture of a family, a business, and a city in disarray, and the looming fallout.
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
Specialty audiences may appreciate this downbeat Filipino drama about an impoverished family trying to hold it together while running a porn theatre, but its unvarnished sex scenes won't play for mainstream tastes.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
As a twitchily sensational series of interconnected images, it's an awesome nugget of faux-trash gold.
NewsBlaze
Kam Williams
The Filipino answer to Slumdog Millionaire!
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
The first Filipino work to play in competition in Cannes Fest since Lino Brocka, Serbis is a slice of life tale of a colorful clan that operates a shabby movieshouse showing outdated sex films.
Boxoffice Magazine
John P. McCarthy
Slightly more evolved from a narrative perspective than his previous feature Tirador (Slingshot), Serbis (Service) is another overwhelmingly tactile experience that should further cement the prolific filmmaker's reputation.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza fails to disguise his prurient exploitation film, about a family-run soft-core cinema, as art house fare--although he seems to have succeeded in doing so with Cannes and New York film festival programmers.
Slant Magazine
Kevin B. Lee
To my knowledge, Serbis is the first film to equate third-world life in the late capitalist era to squatting in a rundown porn palace.
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