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Movie Info

A dozen combat veterans come home from the war and cannot put their traumatic memories aside. They turn to The Pathway Home, a PTSD therapy center, to end their ongoing mental torment.

Genre:

documentary
Original Language:

English
Director:

Laurent Bécue-Renard
Producer:

Laurent Bécue-Renard, Heinz Dill, Elisabeth Garbar
Writer:

Laurent Bécue-Renard
Release Date (Streaming):

Feb 8, 2017
Runtime:

2h 22m

Cast & Crew

Laurent Bécue-Renard
Director

Laurent Bécue-Renard
Screenwriter

Laurent Bécue-Renard
Producer

Heinz Dill
Producer

Elisabeth Garbar
Producer

Kudsi Ergüner
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Critic Reviews for Of Men and War

All Critics (15) | Top Critics (7) | Fresh (15)

The access that Bcue-Renard got, reportedly after five months of being there without a camera, is remarkable ...

November 13, 2015 | Full Review…

Robert Abele
Los Angeles Times
What emerges is a tapestry of despair, one defined by its persistence.

November 9, 2015 | Full Review…

Bilge Ebiri
New York Magazine/Vulture
Filmed almost entirely inside the Pathway Home in California, a residential therapy center for veterans, this devastatingly raw documentary shows that for some the fighting may stop, but the suffering continues.

November 6, 2015 | Full Review…

Jeannette Catsoulis
New York Times
The horrors of the battlefield come home to roost in ways that are both riveting and deeply disturbing in Of Men and War, a remarkable chronicle of Iraq War veterans suffering from the devastating effects of PTSD.

November 5, 2015 | Full Review…

Jordan Mintzer
Hollywood Reporter
The devastating toll of post-traumatic stress disorder inflicted by the Iraq and Afghanistan wars on U.S. soldiers is vividly presented in Of Men and War, a slow-burn documentary from France's Laurent Becue-Renard.

November 5, 2015 | Full Review…

Charles Gant
Variety
Disregard your personal feelings about the military, U.S. involvement in foreign wars, or a French director making a movie about Americans. This film is raw in the truest sense, yet refined in its sympathy and scope.

November 3, 2015 | Full Review…

Diana Clarke
Village Voice
Bécue-Renard's documentary is a unique, disturbing look at the devastating psychological and physical wounds suffered by America's so-called "warriors."

February 26, 2021 | Full Review…

Joanne Laurier
World Socialist Web Site
Bécue-Renard's film is initially surprising in how it places emotions-along with the act of confronting emotions-at the forefront.

May 24, 2019 | Rating: 7.5/10 | Full Review…

C.J. Prince
Way Too Indie
For all the individual horrors it documents, Of Men and War... is organized as a collective experience, following multiple, mostly unnamed veterans as they share in group or in pairs, expressing rage and fear, frustration, and small pleasures.

June 1, 2016 | Rating: 9/10 | Full Review…

Cynthia Fuchs
PopMatters
A hard-hitting documentary which zeroes in on the harrowing experiences of veterans and their families as they struggle to reclaim their lives.

May 27, 2016 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review…

Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat
Spirituality & Practice
Bcue-Renard shows the Pathway Home not as a means through which to forget wartime experiences, but to engage with the memory of them.

April 22, 2016 | Rating: Recommended | Full Review…

Conor Bateman
4:3
There is no battle footage or graphic imagery, but it's excruciating to watch -- a series of devastating, nakedly human moments showing the cost of war on the men sent to fight it.

November 4, 2015 | Rating: 4/5

Norman Wilner
NOW Toronto