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Dominican Rep. Harrison's Flowers
3,530
Drama
Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to ... [+]
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"The movie exhibits the usual indifference to the issues involved. Although it was written and directed by Elie Chouraqui, a Frenchman, it is comfortably xenophobic." | NEU |
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A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war" | POS |
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"It's ultimately a losing battle when the audience's lack of interest in eastern Europeans is assumed at the outset." | NEU |
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"A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war, with battle scenes that have the immediacy and impact of the famed opening sequence of 'Saving Private Ryan.'" | POS |
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"Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war." | POS |
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The Wall Street Journal | "What's strong and true in Harrison's Flowers falls victim to what's familiar, melodramatic and false." | NEU |
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"There's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia." | POS |
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"Leaves us with a heightened appreciation of the bold and personal films made by a number of filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia" | NEG |
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