Movie Description Remarkable, gritty, and unforgettable, this documentary--the winner of three major awards at Sundance--examines the realities of daily life in modern war-torn Iraq in three acts, spanning religious and ethnic differences. The first segment follows an orphaned 11-year-old apprenticed to a tough auto mechanic in the center of Baghdad; the second focuses on fundamentalist Shiite politics, their militia's enforcement of Islamic law, and their violent conflict with U.S. troops; and the third observes a Kurdish family and community beginning to explore its newfound freedoms and troubles.
| Details | | Edition: | Special Edition; 2-Disc Set |
Editorial Reviews "The imagery is poetic and beautiful at times. Meanwhile, the film's haunting legacy is that people still are being pulled apart by religious differences and ethnicities." Box Office - Richard Mowe (11/01/2006)
"Working with verite patience and no scripted narration, Longley looks and listens, with nonjudgmental sensitivity....The calm poetry of the cinematography offsets the mess of the politics to stunning effect." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly - Lisa Schwarzbaum (11/17/2006)
4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]hat makes IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS so distinctive is its impressionistic and at times lyrical imagery." Total Film - Tom Dawson (02/01/2007)
"[Longley] is already a virtuoso craftsman....The cumulative effect of his three interlinked studies of life in the new Iraq is quietly devastating." Sight and Sound - Geoffrey Macnab (02/01/2007)
"Mr. Longley uses the grainy, smeared palette of digital video to create vivid, haunting tableaus of urban and rural Iraq." New York Times - A. O. Scott (02/23/2007)
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