While Luna is shown living and working alongside his soldiers and talks his talk of the need to put country before family and everything else, Aguinaldo operates behind a neat desk - an indecisive man under the sway of his backers, his cronies and even his mother. While Luna is constantly at loggerheads with the former colonial-era apparatchiks who have reinvented themselves as pro-independence leaders, his biggest adversary here is actually the movement’s leader Emilio Aguinaldo ( Mon Confiado). His boldness contrasts sharply with the meek, reconciliatory voices which dominate the movement.

military have already defeated Spanish colonialists and readying themselves to annex the Asian archipelago, and Luna is busy steering the independence movement towards a direct confrontation with a superpower aiming to gain a toehold in Asia. Shunning the inconvenient truths of Luna’s early-life brushes with politics - he started out advocating political reforms rather than outright revolution - the film begins in 1898, when he has already delved headlong into the armed struggle and is the commander of the Philippine Republican Army. Read More ‘Shadow Behind the Moon’ (‘ Anino sa likod ng buwan‘): Vladivostok Review

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