Once in a Blue Moon

Mixed reports of the efficacy of yesterday’s rallys, protests, and boycotts are coming across the wire. Whether or not you think that yesterday’s “Day Without Immigrants” was a successful stand of solidarity makes no difference when you watch the following video. Bostonist takes it as a glimpse into other culture, cinematically. The Metro Manila Film Festival tapped the movie, Once in a Blue Moon, to be one of the Magic 7 – we’re not up on the particulars of the festival, but from what we can find it’s akin to a best of list. The story opens here with an elderly Filipina immigrant in Boston (see the relevance) trying to find her long-lost love who she believes still lives in the homeland. She’s writing to every man in the Philippines named Manuel Pineda wondering if he’s the one…the copyright police haven’t pulled this foreign flick off of YouTube yet so you can catch the subtitled version in 11 installments beginning with the opening, from a quiet Boston home.