Rosario

Rosario is a 2010 movie directed by Albert Martinez. It is a life story about Manny Pangilinan's grandmother Rosario Pereira. Plot: Manny Pangilinan's uncle, Jesus (Dolphy) writes a letter to the TV5 chairman. Upon reaching to the network station, Jesus tells his nephew a story about Rosario Pereira, Jesus' mother. Rosario (Jennylyn Mercado), is a sophisticated Filipina flapper in the 1920s who has just arrived from New York City, and is spending her vacation in their hacienda. She is the mestiza daughter of Portuguese ship captain Don Enrique (Phillip Salvador) and Filipina Doña Adela (Eula Valdez), Rosario was a passionate woman who lives according to her heart's desires. She was a woman ahead of her time. She meets and falls in love with Vicente Velez (Yul Servo), an older man who manages the tobacco plantation owned by Rosario's family. When Rosario's father finds out about his daughter's scandalous affair, he sends Rosario to a convent. She escapes, and elopes with Vicente to Manila where they raise a family. But Rosario's life of married bliss slowly crumbles when Vicente becomes ill with tuberculosis, and she is lured to committing adultery. Temptation and scandal still hound Rosario as she continues to defy the moral restrictions of her time. She finally committed adultery by having a relationship with another man named Alberto Fernandez (Dennis Trillo), Vicente learns that his wife had cheating on him after their daughter Maria Rosario had found their affair, he decided to leave her with his daughter. After recovering from his tuberculosis, he soon filed a case of adultery towards both Rosario and Alberto as well as he was silently informed by his friend Carmen (Isabel Oli) that Rosario was also pregnant with Alberto's child as the court findings that both Rosario and Alberto are guilty for their crimes of adultery and was sentenced to exile in three years, six months and twenty one days in exile. During the exile, they went to Hong Kong and she gave birth to Alberto's son, Jesus and several years later, they return back to the Philippines and they traveled in different provinces until they decided to stay in Manila. Rosario with both Alberto and their son Jesus lived in the apartment complex owned by his friend Miguel Delgado (Ricky Davao) During their stay, Miguel's caretaker, Carding (Sid Lucero) also has interests towards Rosario, leading Alberto to lost his interest to both her and his own son, thinking she was cheating on him when he finally gets the job in Laguna. Rosario's entire life had soon changed from a sopisticated flapper to a poor housewife. She was soon received a ticket where she can finally meet her now grown daughter Maria Rosario (Empress Schuck) whose name changed to Soledad and made a piano performance in her concert. Upon meeting her former family while Vicente was away to fetch Soledad's step-mother, Carmen. Rosario sadly learns that her former family including Soledad had never acknowledged her as both a mother and a former wife due to her previous crime of adultery and Soledad had learned to hate her own mother. Vicente confronts Rosario who had already atone for her crimes she had done for them but they never accepted her apology and leave her away. Four months had passed, Rosario is having troubles with her debt on her house rental from Manuel. As Carding discovers that Rosario was having sex with Miguel as payment for her debts, stating that he was collecting the payment. Seeing what Miguel has done to her, Carding angrily pummels him to death and telling her and her son to leave the house. Both eventually gave their farewell and leave. Back in the present day, Jesus continues to tell his nephew that he was raised by his father's relatives since Rosario had left Carding who decided not to destroying his life by taking another relationship. He soon give his nephew the few remaining pictures of his mother Rosario as other pictures had already washed away from the flood. They had no money to buy lots in the cemetery but instead renting the tomb for her corpse. When they had no rent to pay, her tomb was given away and Rosario's corpse was thrown as he and his relative had failed to find Rosario's corpse and was nowhere to be found. Jesus tells his nephew that all his mother wanted was to ask forgiveness for her sins but was unable to make amends to her parents, her husband, and her own children. After encountering his nephew Manny, Jesus had succeeded in bringing together of both families of his mother Rosario which has been long separated by time and suffering. Telling of his mother's life story was enough to seek her forgiveness she had longed for. Despite everything it happened, he loves his mother and she will remained from his memory.