October 2, 2007 5:12 pm
By: tiffreviews
Village Voice | Village Voice, NY - "Brian De Palma—known for his perverse tales of voyeurism and violence, from Body Double to Scarface—may have found his dream subject in the Iraq War.
Frustrated with the lack of disturbing images out of Iraq, De Palma set out to “show the other side,” he says, with Redacted (screening at the New York Film Festival, October 10 and 11). A mishmash of fictionalized fragments, including a soldier’s video footage, YouTube clips, and a French documentary, the digital film tells the story of American soldiers who rape and murder an Iraqi girl. “We have all these infomercials created by the Bush administration,” says De Palma of mainstream media’s war coverage. “But if you go on the Web and read soldiers’ blogs or look at the pictures, you go, ‘Whoa!’ You see a whole different story.”
“You have to look at the pictures,” De Palma says several times during our conversation at the Toronto International Film Festival, where his film created equal numbers of defenders (”a brilliant film with a passionate payload of political conviction”) and detractors (”tedious,” “nauseating,” “as stridently performed as a high-school play”). At the Venice International Film Festival, De Palma walked away with the Best Director prize; at Telluride, audience members reportedly stormed out during the film’s rape scene… [Full Story] |
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