De Palma's Redacted gets Venice premiere
Brian De Palma accepts his film may be interpreted as anti-American
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Saturday, 01, Sep 2007 08:27
Brian De Palma's controversial Iraq war film Redacted has received its premiere at the Venice Film Festival.
The veteran director's low-budget docudrama deals with the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and the killing of her entire family at the hands of US soldiers.
Three soldiers have already been convicted of crimes related to the incident in Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad, in 2006.
But a fourth soldier, the alleged ringleader of the plot to rape the teenager, faces trial in a civilian court and a possible death sentence after being discharged from the army.
Speaking to reporters ahead of the film's premiere, De Palma, who directed Hollywood staples Scarface, The Untouchables and Mission: Impossible, explained that the name of his film came from the term used by lawyers to describe the removal of sensitive information in soldiers' correspondence.
"Sadly, the true story of the war in Iraq has been redacted from the mainstream corporate media," he said, according to the Hollywood reporter.
"I did this film because I believe that if we as a country are going to cause such disorder we must also be prepared to face the horrendous images that result from these events."
Redacted is due for a limited release stateside later this year.