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Jungle Love

Jungle Love

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Status

Released

Release Date

Dec 8, 2012

Runtime

1h 25m

Genres

Adventure, Drama

User Score

35%

Original Title

Jungle Love

Production Companies

Salida Productions, Cinema One Originals

Director

Sherad Anthony Sanchez

Description

Jungle Love follows a handful of people who have disappeared into the jungle: a woman who has kidnapped her sister's child; an urbane couple and their indigenous guide; a bored and horny platoon; and a nameless tribe. Disappearance has another meaning in Sanchez’s native Mindanao, where a decades-old conflict between the government and secessionists fighting for an Islamic state has made the region infamous for its kidnappings. Sanchez took inspiration from an incident in which a friend living abroad visited an exhibition, and found a photo of him labeled as one of the disappeared. Jungle Love is permeated with this sense of the uncanny, as narratives and identities fracture and fuse into one another in the reckless, lonely places people go to escape themselves.