Captive (Brillante Mendoza)

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Movie: Captive
Director: Brillante Mendoza
Writer: Brillante Mendoza, Patrick Bancarel, Boots Agbayani Pastor, Arlyn dela Cruz
Producer: Didier Costet, Brillante Mendoza
Cinematographer: Odyssey Flores
World Premiere: February 13, 2012 (Berlin International Film Festival)
Release Date:
Runtime: 120 min.
Language: Tagalog, English
Country: Philippines, Germany, France, UK

Plot

Masked armed men, belonging to an Islamic separatists group, enter a beach resort in the Philippines and takes 20 hostages. The hostages are taken on a journey, across the sea and through the mountains, all the while, hounded by the Filipino army that are on their trails.

Notes

To realistically portray the screenplay, director Brillante Mendoza filmed the movie chronologically with the screenplay. In addition, the kidnappers and hostages were kept separate until the filming of the kidnapping scene.

Cast

Isabelle Huppert - Therese Bourgoine
Kathy Mulville - Sophie Bernstein
Marc Zanetta - John Bernstein
Rustica Carpio - Soledad Carpio
Ronnie Lazaro - Abu Azali
Maria Isabel Lope - Marianne Agudo Pineda
Angel Aquino - Olive Reyes
Sid Lucero - Au Mokhif
Raymon Bagatsing - Abu Saiyed
Timothy Mabalot - Ahmed
Mercedes Cabral - Emma Policarpio

Film Festivals

2012 (62nd) Berlin International Film Festival - February 9-19, 2012 - Competition *World Premiere
2012 (17th) Busan International Film Festival - October 4-13, 2012 - A Window on Asian Cinema
2012 (56th) BFI London Film Festival - October 10-21, 2012 - Films in Journey
2012 (14th) Mumbai Film Festival - October 18-25, 2012 - World Cinema
2012 (9th) Hong Kong Asian Film Festival - November 2-November 18, 2012 - Cineaste Delights

Comments

JIMNY Sep 09 2012 9:44 am completely waste of time watching this movie. To all who would say, the movie is nice, people will just be saying that because it's locally ours, i mean story wise it is nice. But film making, a big shame....you have a nice story that can help bring the movie more interesting and that's all mendoza can do. Producers are just wasting time on this dude

JIMNY Sep 09 2012 9:39 am I give the movie title an 'A'. "CAPTIVE", such a truly interesting title...but a big fat D for film making.

JIMNY Sep 09 2012 9:37 am Given producers from france, germany, etc. and all mendoza can make is a film like this, what a shame to the philippine movie industry.

JIMNY Sep 09 2012 9:36 am 2 THUMBS WAY WAY WAY..............................DOWN.

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