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Starring:
Alberto Bonilla, Steven Chinni, Liev Schreiber
Review:
This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it
under "no good deed goes unpunished." When actor Liev Schreiber saw
an MTV interview with Muthana Mohmed, 25, a Baghdad film student
whose school had just been destroyed by a U.S. bomb, he invited the
Shiite to work as an intern on Everything Is Illuminated,
the film he was directing in Prague. Nina Davenport came aboard to
record Muthana's progress. What she finds is Hollywood at its
worst. Schreiber, the good Jewish liberal, treats Muthana as a
gofer. Producer Peter Saraf, putting the kid's Bush adoration
aside, instructs him in the art of sucking up. Muthana, afraid of
returning to Iraq, and getting accustomed to the availability of
babes and booze, hustles a job on a zombie movie with the Rock and
accuses Davenport of...
Rating:
3 Stars
Operation Filmmaker : Review : Rolling Stone {...} This gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under no good deed goes unpunish... {...} Published: June 11, 2008, 8:58 pm - Indexed: June 13, 2008, 12:51 pm - Page Size: 38KB |