A Portuguese navigator sails west under a rival crown, chasing a route to the Spice Islands that no European chart records. He crosses an ocean that starves his men, breaks his fleet with mutiny, and ends on a beach in the Philippines, run through in a fight he picked in the name of a god the islanders never asked for. That is the journey at the center of Magellan, and Lav Diaz films it as a wound rather than a triumph.Diaz strips the first man …
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