I saw this at Sundance and just loved it. Let's hope it will get a good distribution, this fine documentary certainly deserves it!
shareAye - saw it yesterday at Lincoln Center in NYC in a full house of maybe 450 people, with Longley there afterwards, and he said it won't be in general distribution until later this year. I hope that's not too late - he did film it in '03 and '04.
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Just watched it recently in Seattle. Superbly done
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just been on tv in england. quality film making
shareIts quite right to have an Iraqi viewpoint on the US and UK invasion of their country (we all know it was without merit) but I watched it on UK TV too last night and think its the most boring documentary I have ever watched. The Oscar nomination by AMPAS was politically motivated in my view and not based on the standard of the documenatary.
sharetrust me, it was a good doc.
you probably just aren't a fan of real life stories... thats probably the effect of fast food culture.
Trust me it was boring. And you are wrong about me not being a fan of real life stories. I have seen many, many true life documentaries which are infinitely better than this. To get the ball rolling....Tarnation, Capturing the Friedmans, Children Underground, Enron The Smartest Guys In The Room, Favela Rising, Rize etc, etc, etc, etc.
shareyou probably just googled them!!! haha
yeah they're all good, i recommend them to everyone.
BUT this was a good one too.. only real in-depth doc i've seen from real ppl inside iraq...
it's rare something comes out that's untainted by politics/media interests.
love it
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I think a small problem for some viewers is the change between chapters. The first one is a boy's eye view of the world. I liked the glimpse of the beauty of Iran before the war and the way he still sees things worthwhile when his life is pretty bad. The second one is more intellectual. We put our thinking
caps on and follow the arguments of the adults, evaluating them or maybe deciding if we think they are biased and so on. It sagged a bit at times for me here until I just accepted the change of tone. The third one is almost a different world again and brings in more beautiful photography.
Maybe some of the criticisms (eg reading on this board) are because people want a film about Iraq to be the film they want made. Iraq in Fragments is not just about a fragmented Iraq, it is a few fragments of a few lives, tiny keyhole views. I think it's quite valid in its own right. You have to concentrate on the particular to give an in-depth vision. It's not so much a doc on Iraq as a doc on a few fragmented lives. That, in turn, gives us (together with all the other films on Iraq) some extra insights to the country.
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