Acclaimed Filipino director Lav Diaz has made films ranging between five and eight hours, so his latest, clocking in at a mere four-hours-and-10-minutes, and his first in colour, is a walk in the park. A transposition of Dostoevsky’s Crime And Punishment , it sees disillusioned intellectual Fabian (Sid Lucero) commit a violent crime and allow unemployed family man Joaquin (Archie Alemania) to be imprisoned for it.

Unfolding in lengthy, frequently static takes, it accrues tremendous character detail, thematic heft and emotion💯al intensity while presenting a country broken by abject poverty, political corruption and half-baked ideologies. Superb.