Giselle Sanchez has been blasted by director-playwright Floy Quintos over her explanation for playing late former President Corazon “Cory” Aquino in the movie “Maid in Malacañang,” which she called “art.”
Among those who responded to Sanchez’s post was Quintos, who said “Maid in Malacañang” is “in no way art.”
“It is not the work of artists, but of provocateurs who simply want to gain likes, views, instant fame and notoriety. Art has nothing to do with it at all,” Quintos told Sanchez. “Please just stop using the term, and the argument that your movie is Art since it disturbs and agitates. Your movie stops there.”
“How can a movie that is already condemned for falsification of history, for an overwhelming bias and for sheer bad taste, possibly be art?” he added. For Quintos, Sanchez’s explanation for accepting the role seemed like “justification for doing the unthinkable” and a “desperate attempt to convince yourself that you made the right artistic choice.”“Art has nothing to do with your choice. Just say you needed and wanted the work. At least, you will have maintained some integrity,” he said.Quintos is not the first director to have called out “Maid in Malacañang.
“Maid in Malacañang,” which is set during the last three days of the Marcoses in the Palace amid the People Power Revolution of February 1986, is expected by critics and martial law survivors to be anDespite the criticisms, Yap said he was pleased with the “attention” that is being generated by his movie.
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