3.5/5 stars Filmmaker Lav Diaz takes audiences into the jungles of the Philippines with Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors, a harrowing historical drama premiering out of competition at this year’s Venice International Film Festival. The premise here loosely evokes Henri-Georges Clouzot’s The Wages of Fear (1953), replacing the volatile nitroglycerine of that film with massive blocks of limestone. Set in the early 17th century, approximately a century after the events of Diaz’s 2025 film Magellan –...