Iraq in Fragments (2006)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.2/10   

Director:

James Longley

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

19 enero 2007 (UK)

Género:

Documental | Guerra

Plot:

Stories from modern day Iraq as told by Iraqis living in a time of war, occupation and ethnic tension.

Plot Keywords:

Iraq | Religion | Arab | Battered Child | Schoolboy

Premios:

Nominated for Oscar. Another 10 wins & 4 nominations

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Of all the films about Iraq, this is clearly the finest

Reparto

Mohammed Haithem	...	Himself
Suleiman Mahmoud	...	Himself

Duración:

94 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Kurdish | Arabe

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby Digital

Locaciones de Filmación:

Baghdad, Iraq

Compañía:

Daylight Factory

Trivialidades:

James Longley traveled to Iraq twice prior to the 2003 war but was unable to begin principal photography until the Saddam Hussein regime collapsed in April 2003.

Conexiones de Película:

Apareció en The 79th Annual Academy Awards (2007) (TV)

Of all the films about Iraq, this is clearly the finest

There are a lot of documentary films about Iraq now. Most of them are about US soldiers in Iraq -- and that's fine. But those films are really more about the US experience than about Iraq as a country.

What IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS does is show the country, the people, that the US has occupied. And it does so with such beauty. I have never seen such a gorgeous documentary as this. The cinematography will knock your socks off. And so will the access Longley has to his film subjects, which is amazing. It's almost like the camera is totally invisible, floating in the air around the people in this film. When the lights came up I was sad; I just wanted it to keep going. Watching this film is like being placed inside Iraq, like magic.