A Faraway Land

It's a familiar story set in an unfamiliar locale. The scenery is spectacular which is reminiscent of Batanes Islands. Alas, one can't say the same about the story. It lacks freshness as the theme, which looks into the life of Filipino workers abroad, has been tackled in earlier films like Dubai or Milan.

The actors try to breathe life into their roles but there's not much to inspire or to surprise the viewer. This is not say that they lack conviction because they are at ease with each other which helps in portraying their roles credibly.

It helps that the film introduces the viewer to bits and pieces of life in the Faroes like surprising delicacies such as fermented meat or garnatalg which is "fat from cheese and animal intestines" or the Faroese approach to child rearing or that "calamansi" is rare in those islands where only potatoes, turnip and rhubarb are grown. Or that there are Filipino ladies who're working there and are married to local men.

The film is not a travelogue but the viewer is tempted to see it more as one rather than a serious film.

1 star as faroes Island beautiful but the story and characters really bad. I mean the main characters where actually villans. I feel sorry for poor old guys that filipinas feel they have no choice to marry. Cheating is never ok.

Movie sucks. Romanticizing bad habits like cheating. Yen Santos don't know how to act. Just very ugly.

It's just frustrating how this movie existed, it's just suggesting that cheating is ok, as long as your partner is foreigner? And how can Mahjoy even consider leaving her husband? 6 days and you already think you love a person, i don't know the only thing that's good from this movie is the location. Nasa kama ka na bababa ka pa sa sahig. She didn't love him, she just love the thought that Nico was paying attention to her and making her feel.special that she didn't feel from her husband, which is also a trait of thhe people from that island, maybe not affectionate but they will let you know they love you.

10 stars for the beautiful island but 0 star for the storyline and actors. At the very beginning, you can predict what's going to happen and it indeed happened in real life. Paolo leaving LJ.

It was annoying to watch how comfortable they are with each other as if they've known each other for a long time. The way they look at each other, their smiles and gestures just tell us that there's flirting and infidelity. Sigh....waste of time. Do not watch this.