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The Woman Who Left

Lav Diaz · 2016 CE · Film · Filipino · Contemporary

A schoolteacher is released after thirty years for a murder she did not commit, freed when the friend who arranged the false confession finally admits it, and goes looking for the wealthy former lover who put her there. Waiting outside his gates she falls in with the people who live on that street at night - a hunchbacked balut seller, a woman who sings, a transgender woman beaten in a doorway. Four hours in black and white, from Tolstoy's “God Sees the Truth, But Waits”, which this archive does not hold.

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