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Directed by
Brillante MA Mendoza
2008
90m
R
Drama
,
Romance
6.1
80%
51%
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The Pineda family struggles with bigamy, unwanted pregnancy, possible incest, and skin irritations in a dilapidated movie theater.
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Cast of Service
Coco Martin
Alan
Jaclyn Jose
Nayda
Gina Pareño
Nanay Flor
Mercedes Cabral
Merly
Kristoffer King
Ronald
Julio Diaz
Lando
Dan Alvaro
Jerome
Roxanne Jordan
Jewel
Dido De La Paz
Atty. Quintana
Buddy Caramat
Tonette
Service Reviews
AV Club
Scott Tobias
Though [director] Mendoza doesn't care to resolve all of the many subplots he's jugging, the film gives a complete picture of a family, a business, and a city in disarray, and the looming fallout.
From the Front Row
Mattie Lucas
Mendoza's roving camera captures his characters strife and pain with an unblinking eye.
Spectrum Culture
David Harris
Serbis, though humorous at times, suffers from Mendoza's wanton vagueness.
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
This isn't a family -- or a film -- you'll easily forget.
Boston Globe
Wesley Morris
Part-telenovela, part outlandish screwball comedy, part soft-porno, but completely without a road map, Serbis evokes Pedro Almodóvar, Tennessee Williams, and 1940s and '50s Hollywood.
San Francisco Chronicle
Jonathan Curiel
Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what "Serbis" does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
The Filipino movie Serbis is gentle, bawdy and at times rambunctiously, ticklishly rude.
Slant Magazine
Kevin B. Lee
To my knowledge, Serbis is the first film to equate third-world life in the late capitalist era to squatting in a rundown porn palace.
The Screengrab
Nick Schager
A scraggly, messy, often aimless, and yet consistently amusing and engaging work of black comedy-cum-social-realism.
New York Press
Simon Abrams
As a twitchily sensational series of interconnected images, it's an awesome nugget of faux-trash gold.
Village Voice
J. Hoberman
Serbis may be a raunch-fest, but it's also a mind-trip -- a raunch-fest with ideas.
World Socialist Web Site
David Walsh
There's a concentration on the immediate and the detail, and the larger social picture is entirely missing, so one is irresistibly drawn to the conclusion that the rot of Filipino society is the fault of the ordinary Filipino.
NYC Movie Guru
Avi Offer
Often drags with too many poorly developed characters its convoluted, unfocused plot. If it were more character-driven and had a sharper screenplay, it would have been a much more captivating drama.
NewsBlaze
Kam Williams
The Filipino answer to Slumdog Millionaire!
JWR
James Wegg
Sex in the Cinema
Boxoffice Magazine
John P. McCarthy
Slightly more evolved from a narrative perspective than his previous feature Tirador (Slingshot), Serbis (Service) is another overwhelmingly tactile experience that should further cement the prolific filmmaker's reputation.
Film Journal International
Maitland McDonagh
Specialty audiences may appreciate this downbeat Filipino drama about an impoverished family trying to hold it together while running a porn theatre, but its unvarnished sex scenes won't play for mainstream tastes.
EmanuelLevy.Com
Emanuel Levy
The first Filipino work to play in competition in Cannes Fest since Lino Brocka, Serbis is a slice of life tale of a colorful clan that operates a shabby movieshouse showing outdated sex films.
Monsters and Critics
Ron Wilkinson
A unique and artistic treatment of gritty family survival but one that will turn away viewers with its carnal setting and sand-blasted treatment of the human condition.
ColeSmithey.com
Cole Smithey
Filipino director Brillante Mendoza fails to disguise his prurient exploitation film, about a family-run soft-core cinema, as art house fare--although he seems to have succeeded in doing so with Cannes and New York film festival programmers.
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