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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Genre: Education/General Interest
Starring: Michael Moore, George W. Bush
Screenwriter: Michael Moore
Producer: Michael Moore, Kathleen Glynn
Composer: Jeff Gibbs
Reviews
Ranks, as a work of cinema, with the best of Santiago Alvarez and Esfir Shub.
This is tense and gripping documentary, at turns hilarious and devastating.
It's sprawling at times, but still uncomfortable, angry viewing in a time when apathy and resignation rule.
This extremely well-assembled film has value on so many levels that it simply demands to be seen.
The director has always been at his strongest on the cusp between anger and humour, but there are simply too few such inspired episodes here.
Moore portrays Bush as a thicko hick who spent 42% of his first eight months in office on vacation.
The movie's conclusions -- true or otherwise -- and highly emotional interviews with bereaved parents and injured soldiers will have a big impact on audiences around the world.
Isn't quite the bullseye Moore's supporters are hoping for and Bush's supporters are dreading.
If all the world is truly a stage, then leftie bad boy Michael Moore is chief scavenger of the behind-the-scenes skeletons in the storage closet.
The problem with Fahrenheit 9/11 is not that it is one-sided, per se; it is that Moore barely acknowledges there even is another side.
Fahrenheit is, by turns, entertaining, incisive, infuriating, heartbreaking and (this being Moore) slickly populist
Michael Moore proves in his scathing yet facile anti-Bush documentary that more than a good filmmaker he is first and foremost indefatigably populist comedian for whom timing is everything.
En general, Michael Moore no es, ni ha sido, un ejemplo de profundidad en el análisis de sus extremas posiciones políticas.
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