The Woman Who Left
Film Comment Selects 2017
February 17 - 23, 2017
In Diaz’s Tolstoy-inspired epic, a woman discovers that, after 30 years in prison, her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder she was accused of, leading to her release and discovery of the man who framed her.
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A woman discovers that, after 30 years in prison, her friend and fellow inmate committed the murder she was accused of, leading to her release and discovery of the man who framed her. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival last year, Filipino filmmaker Lav Diaz’s Tolstoy-inspired epic is a story of revenge deferred, “a meditation on the nature of Goodness in a world of deceit and corruption” (Olaf Moller, Film Comment) that functions as a slow-build tale of urban theater and class warfare, and a sensitive expression of family and forgiveness. A Kino Lorber release.
carefully composed and hauntingly beautiful to behold.
—A.O. Scott, The New York Times
A succinct, poignant revenge drama
—Clarence Tsui, Film Journal
A powerful and, by his standards, refreshingly contained moral study
—Guy Lodge, Variety
Haunting drama of guilt, God and gloomy revenge
—Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
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