Some Kind of A Mini-Review: Iyung-Iyo (1956)

Jose de Villa's Iyung-Iyo (1955)
(Photo credit: Pinoy Criterion)

As of this moment, this is one of the few surviving films of the Rogelio dela Rosa-Carmen Rosales tandem. Some had labeled this as the “worst" among the films they have been together.

However, I think otherwise. Perhaps the whole film itself is “not that good" as a whole. Yet, there’s still this particular scene where Lito (dela Rosa) comes back as a stranger and a different person to his blinded wife, Claudia (Rosales) but he can’t even lay a finger on her, for as far as she was aware of, Lito has been dead for a year. You can really see Lito’s longing for Claudia and their son whom he met for the first time. It may not have been the best, still it has its own good parts.