A crime film about a "chop-chop" lady has earned for Brillante Mendoza the Best Director plum in the Cannes International Film Festival - from GMANews.

Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines on Sunday picked up the best director prize at the Cannes film festival for his dark movie "Kinatay" - from ABS-CBN news.

Reaction to Brillante Mendoza's win in Cannes from Awards Daily.

Abandon all hope, ye who enter the hell of images. Filipino director Brillante Mendoza’s Serbis (Tagalog for “service”) is entirely set in and around a candidate for the world’s tawdriest movie theater — a dingy hall of mirrors that’s hilariously but not inaccurately named the Family - From LA Weekly.

Strong boos greeted Thirst, but they were drowned out moments later by even stronger boos for Mendoza as the Best Director of the fest. While some agreed his film Kinatay was a step forward from Serbis, it was widely panned nonetheless - from Huffington Post.

Like Filipino boxing icon Manny Pacquiao, director Brillante Mendoza deserves to be given a hero’s welcome when he comes home, an award winning filmmaker said Monday - from ABS-CBN news.

Movie reviews from Rotten Tomatoes.

Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines on Sunday picked up the best director prize at the Cannes film festival for his dark movie "Kinatay" - from AFP.

Brillante Mendoza's controversial film that was in competition at Cannes 2008.

This year’s other big winner was Brillante Mendoza of the Philippines, who snagged the best-director trophy for “Kinatay,” where a young woman is shown getting butchered. Mendoza’s film was not popular with the critics, as reflected by scoreboards published in trade dailies - from Bloomberg news.

... winner of the director award was Brillante Mendoza, from the Philippines, whose grisly, widely loathed shocker, “Kinatay” (“Slaughter”), hinges on a man who doesn’t prevent a murder ... from the New York Times.