The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros
2006VOTE NOW
| Unico Entertainment | Release Date: September 22, 2006 |
Summary:
A gay cross-dressing preteen's unquestioned devotion to his family of smalltime criminals in a Manila slum is undermined when he is befriended by a principled rookie policeman.
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Directed by Auraeus Solito from a screenplay by Michiko Yamamoto, Maximo has charmed film festival audiences from Sundance to Jerusalem with its refreshingly blasé handling of homosexuality, its amiable actors and its delicacy of milieu. Credit, above all, the talented Mr. Lopez, whose effortless charisma buoys the movie even when it goes heavy with contrivance.
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