Post by Novus Dis on Dec 21, 2011 0:33:32 GMT -5
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_the_Land_of_Blood_and_Honey
I don't think you can get a worse endorsement than Amanpour and Clark. That's got to be a record or something.
Film writers expressed positive feelings after viewing a trailer for the film.[20][21] Journalist Christiane Amanpour, who covered the war, introduced the film at the New York premiere, calling it “remarkable and courageous",[22] while Wesley Clark, who was a military advisor during the conflict, called it "incredible."[23] Writing in the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen praised the movie, seeing it as an indictment of the hesitant American reaction to the atrocities committed by Serbs against Muslims in Bosnia as well as an endorsement of American-led foreign interventionism such as the military action in Libya.[24]
After the film was shown to locals in a special screening in Sarajevo, Murat Tahirović, the head of association of prisoners of war, stated that Jolie "really succeeded in telling the story of the whole war in her film and to show the most characteristic situations that detainees faced — mass executions, rapes, (being used as) human shields and all the other horrors." The head of an association of mothers of Srebrenica massacre victims Hatidza Mehmedović–who had earlier spoken out against Jolie after the media rumours regarding the film—said the final product was "really an excellent movie," "objective and sincere," and wanted to "thank Angelina for her intellectual and financial investment."[25][26]
Screen International's Howard Feinstein commended Jolie for "attempting to rectify the gross injustices perpetrated against the Muslims that were tolerated in the name of a mythological Greater Serbia, masterminded by Slobodan Milošević", while reproaching her for "going beyond acceptable dramatic license and presenting the Serbs as caricatures". He furthermore has issues with her script "that often misses the boat" and its "over- and under-drawn characters".[27] Though feeling In the Land of Blood and Honey "has you dreading to learn what atrocity awaits around the next corner", The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy also thinks Jolie "deserves significant credit for creating a powerfully oppressive atmosphere and staging the ghastly events so credibly".[28] Variety's Justin Chang penned a negative review of the movie, labeling it a "dramatically misguided attempt to renew public awareness of the 1992-95 Balkan conflict" that "springs less from artistic conviction than from an over-earnest humanitarian impulse". He didn't like the way the movie "almost seems to sense its scenario tilting into tarted-up banality and abruptly shifts gears, to shockingly blunt effect" and criticized the actors for being a bit colorless, especially Marjanović and Kostić who "don't seem entirely at home with their characters' fairly risible dynamic".[29]
In December 2011 the Producers Guild of America announced that the film would be honored with its 2012 Stanley Kramer Award. [30] The film was also nominated in the Best Foreign Language category for the 69th Golden Globe Awards.[31] Some predictions also consider the film a potential Academy Award nominee.[32][33][34]
After the film was shown to locals in a special screening in Sarajevo, Murat Tahirović, the head of association of prisoners of war, stated that Jolie "really succeeded in telling the story of the whole war in her film and to show the most characteristic situations that detainees faced — mass executions, rapes, (being used as) human shields and all the other horrors." The head of an association of mothers of Srebrenica massacre victims Hatidza Mehmedović–who had earlier spoken out against Jolie after the media rumours regarding the film—said the final product was "really an excellent movie," "objective and sincere," and wanted to "thank Angelina for her intellectual and financial investment."[25][26]
Screen International's Howard Feinstein commended Jolie for "attempting to rectify the gross injustices perpetrated against the Muslims that were tolerated in the name of a mythological Greater Serbia, masterminded by Slobodan Milošević", while reproaching her for "going beyond acceptable dramatic license and presenting the Serbs as caricatures". He furthermore has issues with her script "that often misses the boat" and its "over- and under-drawn characters".[27] Though feeling In the Land of Blood and Honey "has you dreading to learn what atrocity awaits around the next corner", The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy also thinks Jolie "deserves significant credit for creating a powerfully oppressive atmosphere and staging the ghastly events so credibly".[28] Variety's Justin Chang penned a negative review of the movie, labeling it a "dramatically misguided attempt to renew public awareness of the 1992-95 Balkan conflict" that "springs less from artistic conviction than from an over-earnest humanitarian impulse". He didn't like the way the movie "almost seems to sense its scenario tilting into tarted-up banality and abruptly shifts gears, to shockingly blunt effect" and criticized the actors for being a bit colorless, especially Marjanović and Kostić who "don't seem entirely at home with their characters' fairly risible dynamic".[29]
In December 2011 the Producers Guild of America announced that the film would be honored with its 2012 Stanley Kramer Award. [30] The film was also nominated in the Best Foreign Language category for the 69th Golden Globe Awards.[31] Some predictions also consider the film a potential Academy Award nominee.[32][33][34]
I don't think you can get a worse endorsement than Amanpour and Clark. That's got to be a record or something.