11' 09" 01 -- September 11. (Mixed Media).Artistic producer Alain Brigand This is a collection of 11 shorts by 11 filmmakers from 11 countries. Each is about the attack on the World Trade Center on 11 September 2001. Each is symbolically 11 minutes, 9 seconds and 1 frame in length. Most of the films are political and all resist the Bush regime's co-option of events. Ken Loach looks back nearly 30 years to 11 September 1973, the date of the American-sponsored coup against Allende's democratically elected Left-wing government in Chile. Mira Nair (director of Monsoon monsoon (mŏns  n) [Arab., mausium=season], wind that changes direction with change of season, notably in India and SE Asia. Wedding) challenges the Islamophobia that
swept America. Based on a true story, her film is about a New Yorker yorkerNoun Cricket a ball bowled so as to pitch just under or just beyond the bat [probably after the Yorkshire County Cricket Club] of Pakistani origin who is missing after the attack. The authorities accuse ac·cuse v. ac·cused, ac·cus·ing, ac·cus·es v.tr. 1. To charge with a shortcoming or error. 2. To charge formally with a wrongdoing. v.intr. him of being a terrorist on the run. In fact, as a police cadet and emergency volunteer, he had hurried to the Twin Towers to help in the rescue and had died in the buildings' collapse. Clearly people across the world sympathized with America's loss and suffering but several filmmakers appeal for reciprocity reciprocity In international trade, the granting of mutual concessions on tariffs, quotas, or other commercial restrictions. Reciprocity implies that these concessions are neither intended nor expected to be generalized to other countries with which the contracting parties , for acknowledgement that Americans are not uniquely victims. As one Chilean exile says in Loach's film: 'We will remember you. We hope you will remember us.' Veteran Claude Lelouch's drama about two New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of lovers, perhaps the best of the fictions, eschews politics altogether. Sean Penn's fantasy one-hander simply looks at a lonely widower widower n. a man whose wife died while he was married to her and has not remarried. WIDOWER. A man whose wife is dead. A widower has a right to administer to his wife's separate estate, and as her administrator to collect debts due to her, generally for already struggling to live with his loss. Penn describes his film, simply focusing on the human implications of loss, as a political rejection of Bush's bellicose bel·li·cose adj. Warlike in manner or temperament; pugnacious. See Synonyms at belligerent. [Middle English, from Latin bellic exploitation of the tragedy. Three months after the first anniversary, this moving and thought-provoking film has finally gained a British release. But it still has no US distributor. Surprise, surprise. Rating * * * STAR RATING EXCELLENT * * * * * VERY GOOD * * * * GOOD * * * FAIR * * POOR * |
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