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- 2006
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 30 m
Summary 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)
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 30 m
- 2006
- Not Rated
- Zeitgeist Films
- 1 h 30 m
My Country, My Country
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Summary 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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Generally Favorable
Based on 18 Critic Reviews
74
89% Positive
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11% Mixed
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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.
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.
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.
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.
Without comment but with unusual sensitivity, Ms. Poitras, exposes the emotional toll of occupation on Iraqis and American soldiers alike.
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.
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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Production Company
ITVS International,
Praxis Film Works,
Public Broadcasting Service (PBS),
The American Documentary
Release Date Aug 4, 2006
Duration 1 h 30 m
Rating Not Rated
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