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- 2008
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2008
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 32 m
Summary When Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the opportunity of a lifetime, nothing goes according to plan, and the result is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable about do-gooder intentions gone wrong. (First Run/Icarus Films)
Directed By: Nina Davenport
Written By: Nina Davenport
- 2008
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 32 m
- 2008
- Not Rated
- Icarus Films
- 1 h 32 m
Operation Filmmaker
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Summary When Hollywood gives a young Iraqi film student the opportunity of a lifetime, nothing goes according to plan, and the result is an engaging, sometimes comical political parable about do-gooder intentions gone wrong. (First Run/Icarus Films)
Directed By: Nina Davenport
Written By: Nina Davenport
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 11 Critic Reviews
69
64% Positive
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
36% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
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The film's parallels between Mohmed's travails and the Iraq war are forced, but overall this is a fascinating odyssey that never plays out in ways you would expect.
It spreads the punishment around, from the executive suites of Hollywood to the mean streets of Baghdad. Everyone here comes out smelling bad - that's why the film's so good.
This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished."
Operation Filmmaker is eventually about Muthana blackmailing Davenport by withholding access to him as she fruitlessly seeks a happy ending for her film. "Now, I'm just looking for an exit strategy," she finally concludes.
Davenport herself seems stunned by how complicated the story turns out to be, which just makes her movie all the more worthwhile.
A fable for our reality-TV reality, Nina Davenport's Operation Filmmaker is as much virus as video documentary. This essentially comic tale maps a contagion of mutual exploitation that seems to have burnished the careers of everyone involved.
Picture raises pithy questions sure to provoke animated discussions pro and con. Credit Davenport for a mostly unbiased presentation that presents her own disenchantment in a balanced manner.
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Release Date Jun 4, 2008
Duration 1 h 32 m
Rating Not Rated
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Awards
Chicago International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
AFI Fest
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
