Rick King's stirring documentary Voices in Wartime is not, as you might guess from the title, a compilation of soldiers' battlefield letters to their families back home. This intense little film is about poetry.
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04/07/05
Voices in Wartime (2005)
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Reviews Counted:16
Fresh:13
Rotten:3
Average Rating:6.8/10
Theatrical Release:Apr 4, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: The powerful and saddening effects of war can produce unique and valuable responses from artists, filmmakers, writers, and other creative types. In VOICES IN WARTIME an array of poets offer their... [More]
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An important new documentary that looks at the ways in which poetry helps people come to terms with conflict.
04/15/05
...fascinating and extremely literate documentary Voices in Wartime manages to present the poet's position on war without turning completely into an anti-Bush film.
04/09/05
Filled with some of the most powerful poetry and shattering images ever to come out of warfare.
04/08/05
Voices in Wartime is a thoughtful, provocative exploration of the ways poets have dealt with the experience of battle throughout history.
04/14/05
An absorbing and eye-opening documentary about war poetry.
03/01/07
It's interesting that, in a documentary about war poetry that supplements literary readings with the occasional use of exceedingly bloody archival war footage, the words more than hold their own against the pictures.
04/14/05
Top CriticMaking poetry cinematic requires greater imagination than King evinces...If the medium isn't always as sturdy as the message, that's a fault that can be readily overlooked.
04/10/05
A string of fine, thought-provoking ideas.
04/08/05
Top CriticA moving documentary about poetry inspired by combat.
04/08/05
A stirring testament to the search for meaning.
04/15/05
One of the most original war movies ever made. Men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there.
04/15/05
An overview of the historic relationship between war and poetry.
04/15/05
Stodgily structured by intercutting grisly stock footage with talking heads and muddy videos of Poets Against the War events, Voices in Wartime isn't nearly as cinematically inspiring as many of the poets it brings to light.
04/15/05
The film’s self-limiting pacifism precludes a closer look at the poetry of war, which is not synonymous with poetry against war.
04/14/05
[A] poorly organized mishmash of archival war films, scholarly chatter, and literary quotations.
04/05/05
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