Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeli... (Full plot summary below)
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Soon after the fall of Baghdad in 2003, a young and charismatic film student, Muthana Mohmed, stands in the rubble of the city's film school and explains to an American television audience that his dream of becoming a filmmaker has been destroyed - first by Saddam Hussein, then by American bombs. This brief, fortuitous appearance on MTV changes Muthana's life forever. Watching in the United States, actor/director Liev Schreiber stops channel surfing, utterly captivated. Feeling guilty about a war he opposed, Schreiber decides to extend to the unknown Iraqi the opportunity of a lifetime - to come to Prague to work on an American movie, Everything is Illuminated. On set, frustrated expectations complicate the relationship between Muthana and his American benefactors in what becomes a cross-cultural endeavor gone awry. Filmmaker Nina Davenport becomes increasingly entangled in the young Iraqi's life as his visa is about to expire and the threat of returning to Baghdad looms. Operation Filmmaker, revealing on several levels, addresses the power dynamics between the American filmmaker and her Iraqi subject, unfolding as an engaging parable about the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
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| Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerThe film's parallels between Mohmed's travails and the Iraq war are forced, but overall this is a fascinating odyssey that never plays out in ways you would expect. |
| TV GuideMaitland McDonaghFor all her own frustrations, Davenport is honest enough not to gloss over the fact that what Muthana's adventures in the screen trade taught him was to hustle, toady and ingratiate himself to useful people. And she helped. |
| Seattle Post-IntelligencerBill WhiteThe antagonism between filmmaker and subject reminds us that reality is never a passive still life, but a volatile entity with its own ideas on how it is to be represented. |
| The Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)Tara ThorneAn outrageous, fascinating study of the Hollywoodization of one man in progress. |
| Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckWhat might have been a vanity project emerges as a surprisingly complicated morality tale. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversThis gut punch of a documentary will knock you for a loop. File it under "no good deed goes unpunished." |
| AV ClubScott TobiasOperation Filmmaker takes a thrilling left turn from its original conceit, and Davenport does a nice job rolling with the punches. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansDavenport focuses deep on the Hollywood do-gooder mentality and her own complicity in treating Mohmed as a symbol of the war and not as a flawed person. |
| New York Daily NewsElizabeth WeitzmanDavenport herself seems stunned by how complicated the story turns out to be, which just makes her movie all the more worthwhile. |
| PopMattersCynthia FuchsEngaging, provocative, and often discomforting, Operation Filmmaker reveals increasing tensions between Muthana and his would-be benefactors, including filmmaker Nina Davenport. |
