Highly recommended as a sobering companion piece to Hollywood's relatively-sanitized version of the same subject-matter in Blood Diamond.
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12/26/06
The Empire in Africa (2006)
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Reviews Counted: 9
Fresh: 6
Rotten:3
Average Rating: 6.3/10
Theatrical Release:Dec 8, 2006 Limited
Synopsis: The story of the civil war in Sierra Leone is discussed at length in this thought-provoking documentary about the region.
Director: Philippe Diaz
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There are images in "The Empire in Africa" that I wish I'd never seen, but it's worth enduring them to hear a side of the story that the media and Hollywood overlooked.
12/11/06
Diaz refuses to accept received wisdom about the RUF's savagery, and it clearly took more than one revolutionary movement to reduce Sierra Leone to abject poverty.
12/08/06
That Empire lacks clear-cut heroes and villains is not necessarily a fault, but the movie's muddle too often comes across as an attempt to avoid assigning responsibility where it belongs.
12/08/06
Top Critic[A] harrowing but provocative work of documentary filmmaking.
12/08/06
Philippe Diaz's tumultuous documentary is a noble but failed attempt to explicate the tragedy of Sierra Leone's 11-year civil war.
12/07/06
Top CriticIt’s possible that Diaz’s sympathy for the RUF is symptomatic of a lingering tendency on the left to sanctify anything that calls itself a revolutionary front.
12/07/06
Absolutely powerful indictment of imperialist greed in Sierra Leone. Reveals the hypocrisy of "humanitarian" interventions.
12/06/06
Filmmaker Philippe Diaz makes a strong case for blaming the international community in general, and the United Nations in particular, for the needless protraction of a conflict that left 70,000 dead and millions displaced.
01/31/06
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