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  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 43 m

Summary Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide and returns to the present with a cast of characters joined by destiny ...

Directed By: Pamela Yates

  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 43 m
  • 2011
  • Not Rated
  • International Film Circuit
  • 1 h 43 m

Granito: How to Nail a Dictator

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
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Summary Sometimes a film makes history; it doesn’t just document it. So it is with Granito: How to Nail a Dictator”, the astonishing new film by Pamela Yates. Part political thriller, part memoir, Yates transports us back in time through a riveting, haunting tale of genocide and returns to the present with a cast of characters joined by destiny ...

Directed By: Pamela Yates

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
49
20% Positive
1 Review
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 5 Critic Reviews
49
20% Positive
1 Review
60% Mixed
3 Reviews
20% Negative
1 Review

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70
Sep 13, 2011
Granito becomes both a humanitarian legal thriller and a quest to find justice through cinema.
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50
Sep 13, 2011
Ms. Yates's moral convictions and agitprop idealizations come far too easily. Granito is less rough-edged than its guerrilla-film predecessor, but it shares a spirit of simplistic revolutionary solidarity.
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50
Sep 12, 2011
The film tracks the history of the country, but viewers may feel the documentarian inserts herself too much into the story.
By Stephen Farber FULL REVIEW
40
Sep 13, 2011
The repeated sight of people watching video monitors or communicating with others via laptops becomes a stilted, gimmicky affectation, and there are only so many times you can watch a camera panning and zooming over still photos before your tolerance for the Ken Burns effect reaches its limit.
By Nick Schager FULL REVIEW
38
Sep 14, 2011
The key to good, or at least effective, agitprop (and Oliver Stone and Michael Moore know this) is that, yes, it must simplify matters, but it necessitates canny presentation so that it may truly get into viewers' blood streams and rile them.
By Chuck Bowen FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Skylight Pictures
Release Date Sep 14, 2011
Duration 1 h 43 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://granitofilm.com/
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Awards

Ojai Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Washington DC Filmfest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Cinema for Peace Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination

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