Toronto Film Festival: Varied Reviews on Guantanamo Film
The Toronto Film Festival is considered one of the best anywhere. I'd really like to go next year. One of the many films that caught my attention from media reviws is this one, starring Robin Wright Penn, as described by a reviewer:
One of the local papers said that this movie was one of the worst in the festival, so I wasn’t expecting much from it. After seeing it, I must strongly disagree. This is an incendiary film that I am still thinking about. Abdel Kechiche plays Ashade, an Arabian New York City taxi driver. His brother has been locked up in Guantanamo Bay and Ashade is raising money to pay for a lawyer and help support his sister-in-law.
Late one night, he picks up Phoebe (Robin Wright Penn) outside an ATM. She has him drive her to New Jersey , where they sit outside a suburban home for a while before she keys a new SUV that sits in the driveway. Phoebe, who from early on is clearly unstable, works for an MTV-type network and produces a show that’s similar to Cribs. She is also enraged about 9/11 and lets racist comments fly at will.
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