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Camp X-Ray (2014)

R  |   |  Drama, War  |  17 October 2014 (USA)
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A soldier assigned to Guantanamo Bay befriends a man who has been imprisoned there.

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Newscaster
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Ali (as Payman Maadi)
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Ransdell
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Mark Naji ...
Detainee #1
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Detainee #2
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Bergen
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Jackson
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Mary
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IRF #1
Daniel Leavitt ...
IRF #2
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Mahmoud
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Cole's Mother
Robert Tarpinian ...
Detainee #3
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A young soldier escapes her suffocating small town by joining the military, only to find that she isn't going for a tour of duty in Iraq as she hoped. Instead, she's sent to Guantanamo. Met with hatred and abuse from the men in her charge, she forges an odd friendship with a young man who has been imprisoned at Gitmo for eight years. Written by Deadline

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Connection takes courage.

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Rated R for language and brief nude images | See all certifications »

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Atrapada en Guantanamo  »

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Budget:

$1,000,000 (estimated)

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$1,316 (USA) (17 October 2014)

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$9,837 (USA) (7 November 2014)
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The director and some of the cast said that the abandoned Fred C. Nelles Correctional Facility, where they shot the prison scenes, is haunted and had a charged atmosphere. See more »

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(at around 1h 00mins), Cole calls the detainee "Hey 361!", but the detainee is known as 471. See more »

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Ali: I haven't heard about this movie.
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Stewart and Maadi are fantastic
17 October 2014 | by (United States) – See all my reviews

Peter Sattler's directorial debut, "Camp X-Ray," is a masterfully shot film that inhabits two stellar performances by Kristen Stewart and Payman Maadi.

Stewart plays PFC Amy Cole from small town Florida who is socially awkward and equally earnest. Meanwhile, Maadi's character of Ali Amir is a charismatic detainee whom is engulfed in his impotent anger and ceaseless boredom.

The film itself is quietly drawn and slow paced to convey the monotony of being a guard at Guantanamo Bay. "Camp X-Ray" is a two-hander for the majority of the film and it rests entirely upon the interactions of PFC Cole and Detainee 471 (Ali). Personally, I liked that the dynamic between the two is purely platonic and develops from the honest human requirement of connection. The tag line of the film "Connection takes courage" is entirely apt.

The supporting cast of Lane Garrison and John Carroll Lynch as Cpl. "Randy" Ransdell and Col. James Drummond do solid work in their roles as Cole's superiors at Camp Delta.

Sattler kept a film about Gitmo as apolitical as probably possible, but some will dislike the lack of a solid stance. The film does not offer any answers to the quagmire of Guantanamo Bay, but rather raises questions and displays the conflicting emotions one might feel while serving or detained there.

Overall, I really liked this little Sundance indie. The attention to detail is impressive and the performances are more than worth seeing.


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