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My Country, My Country
Zeitgeist Films
MPAA RATING: Not Rated
Working alone in Iraq over eight months, director/cinematographer Laura Poitras creates an extraordinarily intimate portrait of Iraqis living under U.S. occupation. (Zeitgeist Films)
| GENRE(S): |
Documentary
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Laura Poitras
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| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: March 20, 2007
Theatrical: August 4, 2006
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| RUNNING TIME: |
90 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
USA |
| LANGUAGE(S): |
Arabic / English / Kurdish (with English subtitles) |

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100
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
When Riyadh's family jokes about the purple stain that marks them as resistance targets after they vote, the black humor speaks volumes about them as individuals, as Sunnis and as Iraqis with a dream of a better way.

90
Village Voice
Michael Atkinson
It seems easily the most valuable piece of film to emerge about the war in all of its three-plus years.

88
TV Guide
Ken Fox
Poitras boldly dispenses with the traditional documentary voice-over, but her film is filled with telling moments that are far more eloquent than any scripted narration.

80
Salon.com
Andrew O'Hehir
A keenly constructed and tragic film, probably the best documentary so far to depict the Iraqi side of the current conflict.

80
LA Weekly
Ella Taylor
Perhaps the most telling image in this remarkable movie is that of a relative intently swatting flies in Riyadh's house, while fighting rages outside.

80
Los Angeles Times
Kenneth Turan
What My Country, My Country does best is show us that while both the Americans and the Iraqis care about the country's future, their cultural backgrounds and world views inevitably make them seem alien to each other.

78
Austin Chronicle
Steve Davis
Even the most ardent of neoconservatives might find this intimate and nuanced documentary about life in occupied Iraq difficult to shake – all politics aside, it is the human element that ultimately defines a nation as a people.

75
San Francisco Examiner
Walter Addiego
A sobering documentary.

75
New York Daily News
Elizabeth Weitzman
Hard to watch but important to see.

75
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Scott Tobias
Reserving the only trace of editorializing for the end credits, which list some sobering numbers on the occupation and this so-called successful election, Poitras mainly allows her subjects and the circumstances to speak for themselves.

70
Variety
Derek Elley
Gotham-based documaker Laura Poitras ("Flag Wars") comes up with a still-timely, quietly hard-hitting look at the Iraqi situation with My Country, My Country, focusing on the lead-up to and outcome of the Jan. 30, 2005, Iraq election.

70
The Hollywood Reporter
Frank Scheck
While My Country, My Country is hardly an exhaustive depiction of its subject, it provides much in the way of material and perspectives previously unexposed.

70
The New York Times
Jeannette Catsoulis
Without comment but with unusual sensitivity, Ms. Poitras, exposes the emotional toll of occupation on Iraqis and American soldiers alike.

70
Chicago Reader
J.R. Jones
As a substantial piece of the puzzle, this is worthwhile viewing.

67
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Though the events have a rambling overfamiliarity, there's a real story between the lines: the resentment over the U.S. occupation on the part of non-insurgent Iraqis.

63
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
The subject of Iraq haunts and divides us so much these days that a film like Laura Poitras' documentary My Country My Country is valuable, no matter its level of achievement.

60
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
The movie attempts to paint too large a canvas.

50
New York Post
Kyle Smith
Even on that happy 2005 election day, which was so successful that it led to a December round of elections in which the Sunnis did participate, Poitras takes a break to show us a close-up of someone slitting the neck of a rooster.


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