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April 9, 2005
Blog Break
My schedule over the next few days just got a little more crowded, so I probably won't be hanging around in blogworld much over the next few days. No real promises about when I'll be able to get back to a normal blogging schedule. But I'll drop by when I can.
It looks like I'm not going to be able to write a full review of the fascinating and moving Kurdish film, Turtles Can Fly (co-produced by Iranian and French companies, but filmed in Kurdish). The film focuses on a young boy, "Satellite," who helps Kurdish villages set up satellite dishes so they can get their news from outside Iraq. In addition, Satellite and other children collect US landmines and sell them back to the UN. The film is, as you might guess, ambivalent about the war and the US in general, with Satellite's wide-eyed enthusiasm for America complicated by events that take place over the course of the film. If you get a chance to see Turtles, I'd highly recommend it. If anyone out there has seen it, I'd love to hear your take.
Posted by chuck at April 9, 2005 12:50 PM
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