I saw this doc at a university film festival under its translated title, Winter in Baghdad. There were four dozen other attendees. However, the only other comment posted on this movie--which has been out for 18 months--is from a European who presumably saw it outside the U.S. Among the 17 people who have rated it, only one other has been identified as a U.S. citizen (who could have seen it in Europe). I saw it because an American reviewer whom I respect had listed it as one of his TOP TEN for 2006 after seeing it in a Canadian film festival. I find it odd that the first doc to show some of the results from a project that has cost 600,000+ Iraqi lives, 4,000+ America lives and a minimum of $2 TRILLION U.S. taxpayer dollars (if the thing ended tomorrow, and mandatory clean-up costs are factored in) has NOT generated ONE U.S. comment on IMDb. Furthermore, the print projected at my film festival had something screwy added to the soundtrack: a weird screeching noise that left some of the others visibly wobbling as they left the theater. (The projectionist told me the back-up copy was mysteriously flawed in the same way.) This movie is a straight doc; it does not have the intrusive director like a Michael Moore or Morgan Spurlock, nor is it rah-rah fiction like Jarhead,Syriana, or The Kingdom. The more recent No End in Sight was a much safer Iraq doc to make, since most of the footage is of talking heads interviewed in Washington, DC. This one was filmed down in the trenches. It deserves 8 out of 10 for the crew's courage alone.
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lostupefacentelapo16 October 2006
The viewer integrates the political with the personal in the tragedy of Iraq that has unfolded since the war began in spring 2003. A tapestry of life in Baghdad today which counterbalances the simplistic and repetitive images of this city that are presented by the vast majority of the mainstream news media. With striking humanity and a remarkable intimacy with his subjects, Corcuera delivers a portrait of Baghdad and its citizens that is both unforgettable and moving.
Does somebody know how to contact the director? Is it possible to have a trailer or some photos taken from the movie?
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel ... and in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" with his mouth.", What Is Man? (1906) by Mark Twain
Does somebody know how to contact the director? Is it possible to have a trailer or some photos taken from the movie?
"Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel ... and in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for "the universal brotherhood of man" with his mouth.", What Is Man? (1906) by Mark Twain
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