Ma’ Rosa: Powerful, Artifice-Free Drama from the Gutters is This Year’s Reality Check
Last year, we got underdog “Dheepan” and “Dheepan” got the Palme D’Or. This year, the same day saw the bourgeois artifice of Pedro Almodóvar’s uninspiring “Julieta”, “Aquarius” from Brazil that fetishes its glamorous, ageing bourgeois muse in a quasi Almodovarian fashion, and small-time Manila drug-dealer drama “Ma’ Rosa” from the Philippines’ Brillante Mendoza screening in the …