Eugene Domingo in the central role of Marilou, a widow who takes over her husband’s barbershop at the height of Marital Law in a small fictional Filipino town
Barber’s Tales is the second piece in a Palanca Award-winning trilogy written by Lana that is focused on small town life in the Philippines in the face of political and social turmoil. The first is Bwakaw, a story about an aging gay man who rethinks his views on death, also swept local and international awards when it was turned into a film in 2012; while the third, Ama Namin, which follows a boy’s plight into a seminary, has yet to be turned into a movie.