https://mrqe.com Sat, 22 Aug 2026 20:00:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.2 https://mrqe.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/01/MRQE-favicon-1.png https://mrqe.com 32 32 https://mrqe.com/movie/the-portrait-m100122173/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/the-portrait-m100122173/ A musical tale about two impoverished sisters’ anguish over whether or not to sell the final masterpiece of their recluse father days before the second world war, in Manila.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/ang-larawan-m100122544/ Sat, 30 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/ang-larawan-m100122544/ Two impoverished sisters agonize over selling a painting, their father’s final masterpiece.

]]> https://mrqe.com/movie/nino-m100105520/ Tue, 02 Sep 2025 04:00:00 +0000 https://staging.mrqe.com/movie/nino-m100105520/ The once illustrious Lopez-Aranda family has faded. Celia, once the darling of Philippine opera, and Gaspar, a distinguished ex-congressman, lacked the shrewdness to maintain their once elegant status. Saddled with a failed marriage, a vanishing career and mounting debt, Celia sold her share of their house to Gaspar, now bedridden. She managed to stay for free in exchange for being Gaspars caregiver. Gaspar loves listening to Celias arias. This idyllic arrangement is shattered when he slips into a coma. His daughter, Raquel, comes home from the US, determined to sell the house to salvage her own economic woes abroad. This signals Celias impending homelessness. With only a few heirlooms to sell, she is at her wits end. A fervent believer of the Sto. Nino, she hopes for a miracle. She dresses up her grandson, Antony, in Sto. Nino robes to prepare him for the coming fiesta.

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