FILMCOMMENT by Joumane Chahine: «Anyone craving wide-ranging insight into the rich mess of the modern Middle East should watch Samir’s Iraqi Odyssey, the Iraqi-Swiss director’s fascinating documentary tracing the upheavals of Iraq and the migrations—from Los Angeles to Auckland—of his extended family, from the days of British colonialism, through the Ba’athist coups of the Sixties and Seventies that eventually brought Saddam Hussein to power, to the 2003 U.S. invasion and ensuing chaos. [...] Avoiding pathos, at times even exhibiting an ironic distance, Iraqi Odyssey offers an engrossing tale of the decades of frustrated aspirations and exile that have marked and continue to afflict the modern Middle East.» filmcomment/article/landscape-after-battle
Posted on: Mon, 10 Nov 2014 14:14:33 +0000
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