2005 film
Cavite
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Directed by
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Written by
| - Neill Dela Llana
- Ian Gamazon
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Produced by
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Starring
| Ian Gamazon
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Cinematography
| Neill Dela Llana
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Edited by
| - Neill Dela Llana
- Ian Gamazon
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Production
company
| Gorilla Films
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Distributed by
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Release dates
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- 2005
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2005
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(IFFR)
[1]
- May 26, 2006
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2006-05-26
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(U.S.)
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Running time
| 80 minutes
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Cavite
is a 2005
thriller film
in
English
,
Filipino
and
Tagalog
, written and directed by
Filipino American
filmmakers Neill Dela Llana and Ian Gamazon which also stars them as the film's leads. An Indian film
Aamir
bought adaptation rights due to similarity in the story.
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Plot
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Flying back to the Philippines to bury his father, an American man is informed by a mysterious phone caller that his mother and sister have been kidnapped and will be killed if he doesn't comply with certain demands. As he follows the phone caller's every wish, he slowly realizes that he is involved in a large conspiracy hatched by the
Abu Sayyaf
.
Critical reception
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Cavite
was met with largely positive critical reviews. The film has a score of 73% on
Rotten Tomatoes
based on 40 reviews with the consensus being it is "A gritty, low-budget thriller,
Cavite
takes us on a heart-pounding ride through the seedy Filipino underworld."
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Robert Koehler from
Variety
in his glowing review of the film said "For a guerrilla-style, no-budget Yank indie to even tackle issues of jihad terror and naive Western thinking is noteworthy in itself, but Gamazon and Dela Llana inflame the issues with a gutsy, athletic filmmaking package."
[4]
Entertainment Weekly
gave
Cavite
a B+ declaring it "one of those blistering no-budget thrillers, like Open Water or Detour, in which the film's economy of means is the trigger for its ingenuity".
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Kevin Crust of the
Los Angeles Times
said "Though the film seldom deviates from its thriller format, Gamazon and Dela Llana astutely weave in matters of political, cultural and religious importance, elevating
Cavite
well above mere genre."
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Kirk Honeycutt of
The Hollywood Reporter
praised the film's directing saying that it's "Guerilla filmmaking at its finest".
[3]
Dennis Lim of
Village Voice
wrote in his positive review is that as "a paragon of guerrilla resourcefulness and a model citizen of the global village,
Cavite
is a more anxious and vivid experience than most movies with budgets literally a thousand times bigger".
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