“A masterwork—which is all the more remarkable given that it’s the first feature by the Filipino director Rafael Manuel... The film performs a scalpel-sharp dissection of the [luxury tourism] industry, laying bare a mad microcosm of power relations—political, sexual, economic, familial, cultural, even linguistic—and the aesthetic of dominance that the resort, in Manuel’s discerning view, projects... Manuel’s approach to narrative is as original as his sense of cinematic form, and his gift for documentary-style observation is balanced by a refined sense of style.”