The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
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  • Summary: A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya's conspiracy theories overly paranoid-but nothing in Asya's world is as it seems. Asya's life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that arise simultaneously out of everyday life. (Hi, Jack Films)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 2 out of 5
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 5
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  1. indieWIRE
    Reviewed by: Eric Kohn
    Apr 16, 2011
    91
    The first-time director's refreshingly credible portrait of a boho character with Middle Eastern origins rectifies the aforementioned canonical gap in a witty, naturalistic generational snapshot.
  2. The A.V. Club
    Reviewed by: Alison Willmore
    Apr 14, 2011
    67
    The film is ultimately more interesting than engaging; Durra doesn't yet have a grasp of the simultaneous warmth and needle-sharp satirical sense that infuse Stillman's films.
  3. The Hollywood Reporter
    Reviewed by: Kirk Honeycutt
    Mar 1, 2011
    60
    The film is fresh and funny, but it is also meandering, at times vague and defiantly uncommercial.
  4. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    Apr 14, 2011
    60
    If The Imperialists Are Still Alive! doesn't go much of anywhere despite its peripatetic characters, that stasis seems intentional.

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