Taglish

Overview

At first, there was Tagalog, Gym Lumbera’s short and, to his mind, unfinished narrative about the infidelity that comes between a husband and wife in their twilight years, shot on film and reflecting his own real-life infidelity.. And then there was a storm, a real storm and not a metaphorical one, that flooded his house and submerged, and subsequently damaged, the only copy of Tagalog. This damaged version, entitled English, became the missing piece that completed the film. The new work is named after Taglish, the bastard hybrid, some say corruption, of Tagalog and English, and has become a meditation on love and language and the ways in which we betray and destroy them.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

December 6, 2012

Original language

English

Spoken languages

Tagalog

Countries

Philippines

Production

Barong Tagalog,Tito & Tita

Cast

Dado Javier,Loleng Hernandez-Javier

Director

Gym Lumbera

Writer

Gym Lumbera

Producer

Allison Jalina-Lumbera,Rogger Basco

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt2536080