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  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Typecast Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Typecast Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

Summary Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style, with no scripted narration, the film power fully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and concerns are at once pe...

Directed By: James Longley

  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Typecast Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m
  • 2006
  • Not Rated
  • Typecast Releasing
  • 1 h 34 m

Iraq in Fragments

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Summary Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a vivid picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style, with no scripted narration, the film power fully explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis: people whose thoughts, beliefs, aspirations, and concerns are at once pe...

Directed By: James Longley

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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 26 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
24 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim Based on 26 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
24 Reviews
8% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
Langley's impeccably nonjudgmental camera knows exactly what details to record. Drawn from more than 300 hours of footage, the film's all too brief 94 minutes mesmerizes with its insight and, rarer still, its beauty.
By Kenneth Turan FULL REVIEW
100
The calm poetry of the cinematography offsets the mess of the politics to stunning effect.
By Lisa Schwarzbaum FULL REVIEW
90
A documentary of stunning immediacy and marvelous images.
By Joe Morgenstern FULL REVIEW
80
A vivid, poetic evocation of life in post-invasion Iraq that works both as impressionistic collage and candid portraiture.
By Ann Hornaday FULL REVIEW
75
In addition to the interesting camera work, the documentary's undeniable appeal comes in how close Longley gets to the characters, who are all male.
By Marta Barber FULL REVIEW
70
Whether or not James Longley's boldly stylized reportage breaches public indifference, its enduring value is assured: When the war is long gone, this deft construction will persist in relevance, if not for what it says about the mess we once made, then as a model of canny cinematic construction.
By Melissa Anderson FULL REVIEW
60
As beautiful as it is unrevealing, James Longley's Iraq in Fragments rests on a debatable but firm premise -- that the embattled country is irrevocably separated by its three dominant groups, Shiites, Sunnis and Kurds -- but brings back nothing journalistically substantial from the war front .
By Robert Koehler FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Daylight Factory, Typecast Pictures
Release Date Nov 10, 2006
Duration 1 h 34 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.jameslongley.com/iraq-in-fragments/
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Awards

Academy Awards, USA
• 1 Nomination
Sundance Film Festival
• 3 Wins & 4 Nominations
Mannheim-Heidelberg International Filmfestival
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations

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