Interview. Philip Haas.

Hannah Eaves talks with Philip Haas about working with artists vs actors, directing scenes in Arabic and about how journalists and soldiers have reacted to The Situation.

"[I]t's not enough to replace ideological certitude with sophomoric relativism," writes Sam Adams in the Philadelphia City Paper. "This tells us that Iraq is fucked and we have helped make it so. But at this point, it's attacking a view that no longer exists, at least among people who might be even slightly convinced by watching it."

Michael Fox talks with Haas for SF360, where Robert Avila writes, "As the Iraq War enters its fifth year, with the debacle continuing to grow worse by the month, Haas's film makes up for its formulaic character and slick but generally basic-cable look with its unusually sophisticated and pointed depiction of resistance and occupation politics in Iraq - a hopeless tangle, and an impossible life for average Iraqis, that everyone calls simply 'the situation.'"

Posted by dwhudson at March 30, 2007 1:49 PM