Macho Dancer (Lino Brocka)

Show & Culture

After his American lover leaves, young Pol decides to go to Manila to support his family. There, he meets Noel, a call-boy who takes him under his wing. Pol then discovers the hidden world of male striptease, involving prostitution, drugs, and police corruption… "Reveals the mechanics of a power system that reduces survival to an economy of the body. Shot shortly after the fall of Marcos, when the filmmaker had been repeatedly imprisoned for his political stances, the film continues his struggle against censorship and social hypocrisy. Macho Dancer is not an indulgent look at the margins: it is an act of defiance, a cinematic gesture that exposes, with pitiless clarity, the violence and suffering of a country where a system still endures that the democratic election of Cory Aquino has not been able to end." (Festival des 3 Continents)