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Provocative and innately disturbing, Poison is a compelling examination of the vicious cycle of poverty, vice, and abuse. |
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(Sanpeet is) among the most challenging - and often uncomfortable - films of the year. |
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Look out for human rights films |
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US TV to screen Afghan film |
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High-profile film-makers line-up for September 11 omnibus. |
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Kabul ER (BBC4) was sobering television, and more than a little depressing. |
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One hospital on the frontlines of America’s war on terrorism in Kabul, Afghanistan, redefines the word "emergency". |
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Jung is the rare exception to a world cinema that follows Hollywood's rules of war. |
A timely documentary on Afghanistan explores a country of endless sorrow. |
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Jung is nothing if not timely, relevant and resonant in its heroic humanism. |
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...this unforgettable Italian pic takes us further into that country's misery and intoxicating brand of madness. |
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Massive, bearded, and profane, Strada is the most persistent and humane hero in any recent movie. |
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Superb, very ably directed and unsettling film.
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This unsparing, heroic documentary is essential for anyone who desires a sense of the finer human grain of a war that now commands the attention of the world as never before. |
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The movie's Italian filmmakers Alberto Vendemmiati, Fabrizio Lazzaretti and Giuseppe Petitto received the Nestor Almendros Prize for courage and commitment in human rights filmmaking for their documentary. Presenting the award to the documentary team was venerable U.S. director Arthur Penn, who praised the documentary, saying, "It never flinches; I promise you." |
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Valuable both as an historical document ... and for its unsparing and graphic depiction of the human toll of warfare and repression. |
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From the frontline roar of a rocket launcher to the wiping of a sawblade at an operating table, there's an immediacy that's gripping. |
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A film full of striking revelations and images, and some of the most extraordinary present glimpses of what seems like another world or era. |
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This gripping film, once seen, is unforgettable. |
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This is an Afghanistan few outsiders have seen, but after watching this film you'll never forget it. |
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At once intimate and epic, Jung makes Mohsen Makhmalbaf's overpraised Cannes competition film Kandahar (about an Afghan woman trying to rescue her suicidal sister) seem thin and contrived. |
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Three Italian film-makers went to Afghanistan to make a documentary about the civil war. They ended up building a hospital. Richard James Havis reports. |
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No fancy word play can even begin to describe what I witnessed visually, mentally, and emotionally as I sat in that movie theatre. |
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The must-see documentary about the blighted nation. |
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"Jung" transcends the morbid realm of war and becomes a testament to humanity and courage. |
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"Jung" is rough, visceral and harsh--but it's also undespairing, and indispensable. |
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"Either human rights are valid for everyone or else they're just privileges." - Dr. Gino Strada |
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If you’re willing to consider an honest look at the costs of war, check out Jung. |
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Everyone in the world should see this film. |
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This past Sunday, overwhelming crowds clamored to see 'Jung' |
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The forced angles and strobe-like visual quality of Lazzaretti's digital-video cinematography creates effects similar to the fight footage in Saving Private Ryan and Three Kings, and Petitto's editing is so nimble and quick that at times Jung almost looks like a fiction feature. |
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This is a powerful film under any circumstances, but it is especially moving and important right now. It could not be more timely for us to understand the misery these people have endured. This momentous film should be widely seen. |
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The value of "Jung" will be to put a face on the phrase "humanitarian aid" that is now used so glibly in the media. Selfless, dedicated professionals like Dr. Strada and the others depicted in the film offer a ray of hope to a land where human values have all but been smothered. Maybe it will inspire similar efforts in other deserving corners of the world that have been forgotten. |