"Brillante Mendoza designs a moving melodrama about a couple torn between love and social traditions...not without pain, renunciation and self-denial. The faces of Nora Aunor and Bembol Roco pull it off subtly... Mendoza's Sinapupunan succeeded... in an impressive way." (Click the link for the original text in German.)
“Brillante
Mendoza manages to show a play between fiction and
documentary, with images that flow (with) interweaving human feelings on a
canvas of colors. Brillante Mendoza brings his camera into an ocean
of images that present a dazzling and exotic part of cultural traditions very
few know.” (Click for the link of the original Mexican text.)
"Mendoza does not focus on telling an emotionally charged story about a childless couple with the desire for offspring in a very dramatic way. Rather, rituals, gestures and cultural codes are at the center of attention and convey, without judging, the image of a remote society." (Click the link for the original text in German.)
"Mendoza does not focus on telling an emotionally charged story about a childless couple with the desire for offspring in a very dramatic way. Rather, rituals, gestures and cultural codes are at the center of attention and convey, without judging, the image of a remote society." (Click the link for the original text in German.)
Among the Filipinos in the audience was Val Esposo whose impression was no less enthusiastic than the critics' reaction: “Sold out tickets for the first first day of Thy Womb screening, and watching Nora Aunor on the big screen with appreciative Austrian audiences with thunderous applause who never left the theater until the last credit of the film has given me goose bump."
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