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Cavite

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Philippines, United States · 2005
1h 20m
Director Neill Dela Llana, Ian Gamazon
Starring Ian Gamazon, Edwin Lagda, Edgar Tancangco, Norma Tancangco
Genre Thriller

Arriving in Manila for his father’s funeral, a Filipino American man is informed by a mysterious phone call that his mother and sister have been kidnapped. This shocking discovery leads him on a harrowing odyssey through the city’s underworld, forcing him to confront his complex relationship with his home country.

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63

New York Post by

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.

80

Village Voice by 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.

70

Variety by 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.

25

The A.V. Club by 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.

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