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My Country, My Country

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Based on 18 critic reviews
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Movie Info
Genre(s): Documentary
Written by:
Directed by: Laura Poitras
Release Date:
Theatrical: August 4, 2006
DVD: March 20, 2007
Running Time: 90 minutes, Color
Origin: USA
Language(s): Arabic / English / Kurdish (with English subtitles)
Summary
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)
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What The Critics Said
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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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >Chicago Reader J.R. Jones
As a substantial piece of the puzzle, this is worthwhile viewing.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >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.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this movie is 8.3 (out of 10) based on 3 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Deb D. gave it a9:
Poitras offers an amazing peek into Iraq in the months leading up to the historic 2005 elections.
