Cavite

Name: Cavite
Genre: Thriller
Released: May 26, 2006
Duration: 80 min
Rating: 64

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Truly Indie | Release Date: May 26, 2006 | Not Rated

Summary: In the town of Cavite, Philippines, people will do just about anything to survive. This is the harsh reality for many Filipinos living in a poverty stricken nation. Adam, an American citizen visiting his home country for his father's funeral, soon realizes this when he arrives at the Philippines Airport and receives a phone call from anIn the town of Cavite, Philippines, people will do just about anything to survive. This is the harsh reality for many Filipinos living in a poverty stricken nation. Adam, an American citizen visiting his home country for his father's funeral, soon realizes this when he arrives at the Philippines Airport and receives a phone call from an anonymous caller letting him know that his mother and sister have been kidnapped and will be killed if he doesn't comply with his demands. Helpless and alone in a country he barely knows he must submit himself to the fanatic's every wish or face the consequences. … Expand

Director: Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana

Genre(s): Thriller

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 80 min

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Marc Savlov

Cavite isn't a horror film, per se – its nightmarish sense of unreality is thoroughly grounded in the geopolitical here and now – but the emotions it conjures from the audience can be traced straight back to Shockers 101. Read full review

Owen Gleiberman

A breakneck inner-city odyssey of jump-cut shaky-cam suspense. Read full review

Dennis Lim

Cavite is such a shrewd melding of form and content that any seeming contradictions and shortcomings end up working to the film's advantage. Read full review

Stephen Holden

A textbook example of seat-of-the-pants guerrilla filmmaking. Read full review

Robert Koehler

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 that shows what can be done with a minimum of tools. Read full review

Kyle Smith

There is more style here than story, but the style - slashing cuts delivered in queasy orange sunstroke tones, accompanied by the urgent bleat of the cellphone - is considerable. Read full review

Scott Tobias

The only rational explanation for how an abysmal no-budget film like Cavite could get released theatrically is that its makers, co-writer/directors Ian Gamazon and Neill Dela Llana, have come up with a from-the-headlines hook too big to deny. Read full review

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Bex

Aug 6, 2006

Excellent story-telling and editing. The movie also gives you a real feel for the not-so-pretty side of the Philippines is like.