2016 · war · drama · history
1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines
Directed by Salvador Calvo2h 10m2016
The Philippines, 1898. Fifty Spanish soldiers arrive in the small village of Baler to rebuild an outpost. Although the war against the Filipinos and their American allies is almost lost, as is the Spanish Empire, the garrison will endure a cruel siege for eleven months. They will be the last to surrender.
Our read: 1898: Our Last Men in the Philippines (2016) reads as a heavy, measured, grounded war · drama · history entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, measured, measured war / drama, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, measured.
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