Curacha: The Restless Woman(1998)

Name: Curacha: The Restless Woman
Director: Chito S. Roño
Genre: Drama
Released: 1998-01-01
Duration: 141 min
Cast: Rosanna Roces, Jaclyn Jose, Ruby Moreno, Ara Mina, Lucita Soriano

Rosanna Roces Jaclyn Jose Ruby Moreno Ara Mina Lucita Soriano

Curacha, a torera (live sex performer), finds herself trapped in an anomalous game of association between sex, life and death, and its political equivalent of sleaze, subservicence and power in drug-addled world. Every night, she sets off to join her fellow toreras for a midnight show of fun and kitschy live sex act. In one tuning point of her life, she bumps into a long-lost friend, Myrna, a former torera, who seems to have a lost grip on life. Curacha makes it her personal mission to save Myrna as she does some soul-searching herself. In the end, we see traces of hope glimmering somewhere, somehow, in a manner that escapes the restless Curacha.