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Bookmark this pageAmigo (2010)
Director: John Sayles
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From Time Out Online
Sayles’s typically intelligent, thought-provoking film about the Philippine-American War – which took place at the start of the twentieth century, as the US was ‘liberating’ various territories from Spanish colonialism – charts the relationships, in a village designed to become a garrison, between American troops, locals (be they peasant farmers or guerrila fighters) and a Spanish priest serving, none too reliably, as translator. As ever, the writer-director has done his research properly and profitably, and despite working in several languages with a large cast, paints a picture of conflict that’s not only convincing in its complexity but relevant to more recent attempts to impose democracy.Author: Geoff Andrew
Time Out Online 2010 London Film Festival
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