Magellan
A hypnotic journey engraved in images of staggering beauty and horror, this monumental achievement from Lav Diaz boldly rewrites the imperialist mythmaking of the Age of Discovery. Elegantly minimalist yet overpowering in its scale and impact, Magellan follows the sixteenth-century Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan (Gael García Bernal) as he embarks on his epochal quest to cross the Pacific—a voyage that spirals into zealotry and violence when he attempts to impose Christianity upon the people of the Philippines. Abetted by García Bernal’s radically antiheroic portrayal, Diaz composes a stark vision of the brutality at the heart of European conquest and a haunting elegy for a lost precolonial past.
Criterion Premieres is a selection of new theatrical films presented on Blu-ray and DVD, released in association with the Criterion Channel.
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
INCLUDES
- Meet the Filmmakers: Lav Diaz, a Criterion Channel original interview
- Trailer
- Notes by critic Beatrice Loayza
Cast
- Gael García Bernal
- Fernão de Magalhães
- Ângela Azevedo
- Beatriz Barbosa de Magalhãesv
- Amado Arjay Babon
- Enrique
- Ronnie Lazaro
- Raja Humabon
- Hazel Orencio
- Juana
- Tomás Alves
- Francisco Serrão
- Bong Cabrera
- Raja Kulambo
- Baptiste Pinteaux
- Padre Pero de la Reina
- Brontis Jodorowsky
- Bispo Juan de Fonseca
Credits
- Director
- Lav Diaz
- Screenwriter
- Lav Diaz
- Director of photography
- Artur Tort
- Director of photography
- Lav Diaz
- Production designer
- Lav Diaz
- Art director
- Isabel Garcia
- Art director
- Allen Alzola
- Editor
- Artur Tort
- Editor
- Lav Diaz
- Costume design
- Célia Fernandes
- Costume design
- Kim Perez
- Costume design
- Praxedes de Vilallonga
- Sound
- Emmanuel Bonnat
- Sound
- Cecil Buban
Trailer for Magellan
