It is also the first Filipino film to compete at the main competition in Cannes, since Lino Brocka's Bayan Ko: Kapit sa Patalim in 1984.
"[3] Brillante Mendoza said the scene in which Jewel (played by teenage actress Roxanne Jordan), is naked in front of a mirror, was not in the script.
[4] Service caused a stir in the Philippines with its loud ambient noise and its graphic depiction of sex and nudity.
Its premiere at the festival was marked by the walking out of several veteran film critics who protested Mendoza's version of "misery porn.
"[5] Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave Service two and a half out of four stars, stating that "[i]f you see only one art film this month, this shouldn't be the one.