Captive (2012)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| Original title | Captive |
| Country of production |
Philippines Germany France Great Britain |
| original language |
Tagalog English |
| Publishing year | 2012 |
| length | 120 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | Brilliant Mendoza |
| script |
Boots Agbayani Pastor Patrick Bancarel Arlyn dela Cruz Brillante Mendoza |
| production |
Didier Costet Brillante Mendoza |
| music | Teresa Barrozo |
| camera | Odyssey Flores |
| cut |
Yves Deschamps Kats Serraon |
| occupation | |
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Captive is a Filipino film from 2012 that had German , French and British co-producers. The director was Brillante Mendoza . The film tells the story of a hostage-taking by Islamist terrorists and describes their fate between the monotony of imprisonment and the escalation of events. Captive ran in the competition at the 62nd Berlinale and had its world premiere on February 12, 2012.
action
The film, which is located through inserts in 2001 and 2002, begins with the terrorists landing on Mindanao . On May 27, 2001, they left their boat at night and woke up their victims and stole jewelry. A short time later, a group of 20 prisoners, including Filipino tourists and international aid workers, including the French citizen Thérèse Bourgoine, played by Isabelle Huppert , are on the boat. The terrorists head for the island of Basilan , where they continue to retreat into the jungle with their hostages, pursued by the army. The goal of the terrorists is to get a ransom. Some of the abductees are ransomed. Outwardly, the hostage-takers represent high moral and religious claims and threaten the hostages with chopping off their hands in the event of theft and forbid the men from touching strange women. Later, however, when the terrorists no longer suppress their sexual desire, the rape of one of the hostages is legitimized with a forced marriage. When the group stops at a Christian hospital, there is a firefight with a military patrol and the reinforcements brought in. Some of the hospital staff are also kidnapped so that they can take care of the hostages. For a short time the group stops at a school in the hinterland. Some hostages die over time from exhaustion or from repeated firefights with the army and militia. Thérèse Bourgoine gives an interview to a Filipino television team in which she greets her children and as a result the terrorists demand an even higher ransom for them. She approaches a twelve year old child soldier. Finally, after more than a year of imprisonment, a military rescue operation takes place in which Thérèse Bourgoine is saved.
background
With Captive, Brillante Mendoza followed up on his film Manoro from 2006, in which he addressed the problems in the province with democratic development. The film is primarily focused on the hostage's perspective, so that the actions of the government and the army are only told indirectly. Mendoza made reference to actual events such as the abduction of Abu Sajaf in his film . In preparation for filming, he visited the original locations and spoke to former hostages, hostage-takers and the military involved. Mendoza did not share the knowledge he gained with his actors, but only let them read parts of the script, which he did not always follow. He created an atmosphere in which Isabelle Huppert initially thought that the hostage-takers were being played by real terrorists, until the director assured her that they were actors and amateur actors.
Was produced captive by Swift Productions . Arte France , Centerstage Productions , BA Produktion and Studio Eight Productions were co-producers . Captive ran in the competition at the 62nd Berlinale and had its world premiere on February 12, 2012.
Reviews
Jan Schulz-Ojala reviewed Captive for the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel and rated him negatively. He wrote: “Mendoza's cinematic reconstruction of what is probably the longest hostage-taking in the world, at 377 days, burns with effort and ambition to reproduce the events in their acute drama and the fact that the danger to life has now become commonplace; Beyond that, however, the director does not develop a distinctive perspective aesthetically, narrative or even morally. ”He also criticized Isabelle Huppert's cast, as her status as a star stood in the way of her impact as a film character. Bert Rebhandl from the taz did not want to fully subscribe to this criticism . So be captive "not tailored to Isabelle Huppert, but pursues a more decentralized Star policy, which is conventional until the end." But Rabhandel came at a critical overall judgment on the film: "The use of many explosives, but also the rambling in the animal world Glances, the opacity of the events in the outside world (which also include the attacks from 9-11 as an essential mark) - all of this makes "Captive" a hauntingly narrated but (for a contemporary history film) strangely ahistorical film In contrast, the reviewer of the time , Wenke Hussmann, praised the performance of the leading actress with the words: "Isabelle Huppert plays the French woman, and Mendoza's film gives her ample opportunity to demonstrate her unique talent for to show the representation of extreme and existential feelings: fear, hunger, desperation ng, anger, hope and their opposite. "
literature
- Berlin International Film Festival (ed.): 62nd Berlin International Film Festival . Berlin 2012, ISSN 0724-7117 .
Web links
- Captive in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Information about the film on berlinale.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Jan Schulz-Ojala: Berlinale - "Captive" with Isabelle Huppert: Barefoot through Hell on tagesspiegel.de on February 13, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2012.
- ↑ Bert Rebhandl: "Captive" in the Berlinale competition - the use of numerous explosives on taz.de from February 13, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2012.
- ↑ Wenke Hussmann: Film "Captive" - The viewer becomes a prisoner on zeit.de from February 13, 2012, accessed on February 15, 2012.