1982 · drama · women · friendship
Moral
Directed by Marilou Diaz-Abaya2h 18m1982
The episodically connected lives of four college friends unfold throughout the incipient martial law years, as they struggle to define their sexual and professional desires and how best to attain them.
Our read: Moral (1982) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · women · friendship entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / women, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
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