Director: Brillante Mendoza
Screenplay: Brillante Mendoza, Patrick Bancarel
Cinematographer: Odyssey Flores
Editing: Yves Deschamps, Gilles Fargout, Kats Serraon
Art Direction: Simon Legré, Benjamin Pader
Sound: Laurent Chasseigne, Stéphane de Rocquigny, A.M. Idioma, Addiss Tabong
Music: Teresa Barrozo
Cast.: Isabelle Huppert, Kathy Mulville, Marc Zanetta, Rustica Carpio, Ronnie Lazaro, Maria Isabel Lopez, Angel Aquino, Sid Lucero
Production: Swift Productions
Distribution:
Equation
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75008 Paris
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www.swiftprod.com
Year: 2012
DCP, color, 122 min,
OV Tagalog with French subtitles
In Philippines, some twenty foreign nationals have been taken hostage in Palawan by the Abu Sayyaf group of Muslim terrorists fighting for the independence of Mindanao Island. While French woman Therese Bourgoine involved in humanitarian activity is bringing supply to an NGO office, along with another Filipino volunteer, she in turn is kidnapped…
“Captive is not a film about the fight of this group. It is a film about humanity: the GAS members’ humanity, the hostages’ humanity and even the humanity of the military who are the armed right hand of the government, or what is called the established order. I think the reason why I tackled this topic appears clearly in the film. Despite its polemical aspect and the fact it does not suggest a solution to the conflict Captive shows something which is not seen, the ‘overall view’, in other words the fact that each person is a prisoner of his own cause”.
