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06/24/06
Voices Of Iraq (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 15 Fresh: 9 Rotten:6 Average Rating: 6.1/10
Runtime: 80 mins
Synopsis: The people of Iraq tell their amazing stories in this fascinating and important documentary, which gives Iraqi men and women the chance to describe in their own words their years under Saddam Hussein and their struggle to create their own stable society in a period of appalling violence.... [More]
Genre: Childrens
Producer: Eric Manes
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08/16/07
the resulting footage remains fascinating and refreshing in light of the usual media coverage that we are fed through our televisions
11/15/04
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11/13/04
Top Critic
As a true or accurate portrait of the real Iraq ... pic pales in comparison to various in-depth U.S. and European reports, and to Bahman Ghobadi's brilliant new drama on wartime Kurdish refugees, Turtles Can Fly.
10/29/04
Top Critic
We don't get to stay with anyone long enough to feel the full power of their story, but a mosaic portrait of a diverse nation emerges.
10/29/04
Top Critic
Despite a good amount of balance allowing for the expression of some anti-American sentiment, Voices of Iraq comes down squarely on the side supporting the war in Iraq.
10/29/04
It's an approach that even the war's harshest critics should find interesting.
10/29/04
It's impossible to say if what the makers of this 'experimental documentary' have assembled is a representative sample of these home movies, but on balance it's vastly more flattering to the Bush administration than Fahrenheit 9/11 and its ilk.
10/29/04
The lack of more than a handful of Iraqis decrying their personal losses and the chaos that has ensued makes it hard to trust the sincerity of the filmmakers.
10/29/04
Maybe my skepticism comes with the timing -- the movie arrives just days before the presidential election.
10/29/04
The goal of this documentary is to show what life is like for the everyday people of Iraq... and the result may surprise you.
10/29/04
By turns heartbreaking, amusing and disturbing, the film features people from different regions, economic classes and religions, recounting stories that are sometimes bleak, sometimes encouraging, but always compelling.
10/28/04
Top Critic
If Voices of Iraq cannot claim to represent the political 'truth' about the war, it certainly provides an unprecedented glimpse into the texture of daily life there.
10/28/04
Top Critic
The movie conveys a sense of what it would be like to live in a place where bombs could drop next door.
10/28/04
An extraordinary, up-to-the-minute tapestry that ranges all over this country of 25 million people and carries the force of revelation.
10/28/04
A thought-provoking way to tell part of the present-day story of this war-torn country.
10/28/04
Any film that credits itself as 'filmed and directed by the people of Iraq' deserves to be regarded with skepticism.
10/26/04
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