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'''''Ang Larawan''''', internationally released as '''''The Portrait''''', is a 2017 Philippine musical film directed by Loy Arcenas. It was commercially released in the Philippines on December 25, 2017 as an entry to the 43rd [[Metro Manila Film Festival]], where it won five of its twelve categories, including Best Picture, Best Musical Score, Best Production Design, and the Gatpuno Antonio J. Villegas Cultural Award and Best Actress given to Joana Ampil. Critical response for the film was mostly positive.
Based on the 1997 stage play, ''Ang Larawan the Musical'' which in turn was based on ''A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino'' by National Artist Nick Joaquin, the film was set in 1941 just before [[World War II]] in a mansion in Manila. Telling the story of the Marasigan sisters, Candida and Paula, and their father, the painter Don Lorenzo Marasigan, it focuses on family conflict and the amalgamation of old Filipino identity and cultural character with the arrival of contemporary and Western ideals.
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