Armida Siguion-Reyna Movies

Selya (Rosanna Roces), schoolteacher in a small Philippine town, has an affair with the reluctant Bobby (Gardo Versoza), who leaves town one day. To follow him, Selya quits her job but fails to find him. Relocating at a village he visits, she moves into a boarding house of gay Ramon (Ricky Davao), lover of a married man with two children. Selya doesn't know Ramon's background, so when he asks her to become his wife, she agrees. The wedding night is a disaster, as Ramon fails to perform. Meanwhile, Bobby turns up, and Selya, discovering the truth about Ramon, is soon back in Bobby's arms. Explicit sex scenes resulted in problems with Philippine censors. Shown at the 1998 Berlin Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi

This cautionary melodrama from the Phillipine's warns women against trying to escape the safe confines of their rigidly defined "feminine" roles as it tells the tragic tale of Elena, a young woman who is first seen accepting a suitcase full of cash from a sleazy lawyer who promptly beats her up and rapes her to ensure that she keeps the cover-up to herself. Afterward, Elena stumbles home with a terrible case of amnesia. Fortunately, her mother understands her daughter's plight and helps her regain her memory. Elena's story of how she became a surrogate mother for a wealthy family headed by a pushy and ruthless female doctor then unfolds via flashback. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

A long-standing and bitter sibling rivalry between disparate sisters provides the basis of this melodrama from Filipino filmmaker Carlos Siguion-Reyna. Jacinta, has spent her entire life in her home village taking care of her parents and her husband. Though she seems to do it willingly, Jacinta bitterly resents her lot in life and will tell anyone who cares to listen how badly she has been treated and how little her parents and spouse appreciate her. The woman is most angry at lovely, more sophisticated sister Clarita who left the village a decade before. Real conflict erupts when Clarita comes back with her husband to make peace with her past and deal with her sister. As the two sisters wrangle, flashbacks provide insight into their grim upbringing. Certain secrets are revealed during these arguments and they cause the family to disintegrate. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi

Using the springboard of a true story, scriptwriter Ricardo Lee has fashioned three versions of a murder based on the accounts of the supposed killer, a woman named Salome (Gina Alajar). In her first account, she is seen running away from the crime holding a bloody knife in her hands, and tells the police she has killed the victim Jimmy because he tried to rape her - a married woman (apparently compounding the offense since it is also against the husband). In the next version, she tells her defense attorney she had to kill her lover because he would not break off with her. In spite of all the circumstantial evidence, Salome is never convicted - and her husband then tells a third version of the murder to the town fool, Macario. Soon both Salome and her husband are forced out of town, putting them in desperate straits because they have no one to turn to and nowhere to go for shelter. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi