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The Road To Guantánamo
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Film Description
Winterbottom's superb dramatisation of the fate of the the so-called "Tipton Three" - locked up in Guantanamo Bay for over two years without a trial - is political cinema at its peak. Interviews with the real men involved are brilliantly blended with reanacted action; all in all, an admirably unsensational account of one of the most deplorable civil rights abuses in recent memory.
Film Information
| Director | Michael Winterbottom | ||||
| Starring | Riz Ahmed
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| Genre | Contemporary Film
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| Country | UK | Language | ENGLISH/ARABIC | Year | 2006 |
Technical Details
| Certificate | 15 | Length | 91 mins | Label | CCLUB | ||
| Cat No | CCD30517 | Format | DVD | Colour | |||
| Region | 2 | ||||||
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Review by Alex Davidson on 1st March 2006
The 'anomaly' of the prison camp at Guantánamo, where 500 men are currently held without trial, is a stye in the eye of contemporary geo-politics. Michael Winterbottom has focussed on the case of the so-called "Tipton Three", three Britons who were held at the camp for over two years after being arrested by coalition forces in Afghanistan, before being released without charge after investigators failed to produce any genuine evidence against them. The film cleverly blends interviews with the three men with re-enacted footage of their extraordinary story.
There are moments of shocking brilliance throughout the film; the footage of Donald Rumsfeld brushing off the Guantánamo controversies by stating that they meet the standards of the Geneva convention "for the most part" has lost none of its sickening hypocrisy, and anyone who quibbles that the (documented) brutal treatment of the prisoners could never be described as torture will surely disagree after witnessing a terrifying sequence in which deranged, disturbing music is pumped into a pitch black cell in order to intimidate.
Although Winterbottom is clearly disgusted by Guantánamo, this is no sensational diatribe. The "Tipton Three" are never portrayed as martyrs, but as normal, flawed human beings who found themselves in a real-life Kafkaesque nightmare. This relative sobriety on Winterbottom's part is key to the film's success, as it makes the despicable action of the film all the more credible. A deserving winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlin Film Festival (after which, ironically, two of the actors were briefly detained at Luton airport), this is political cinema at its peak.
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