29 Aug 2006

Feng Shui

Director: Chito S Rono

Language: Tagalog with English subtitles

Starring: Kris Aquino, Jay Manalo

Screening: 2005-02-01

Nope, this ain't a Chinese film. Rather, it's set in the Philippines
where Joy (played by Kris Aquino, daughter of the country's former
president Corazon Aquino) finds a bagua, a mirror used
in Chinese geomancy, on a bus seat.


While the bagua seems to bring good luck to her and her
family, anyone else who catches sight of it meets with an untimely
death. Clearly, there is a price to be paid for the streak of fortune
Joy and her loved ones are enjoying.


The film isn't all that scary, and the theme of feng shui isn't
explored as fully as its title might suggest. But the primary spook
(an old woman with bound feet) might raise the hairs on your back
a couple of times.