The Miscreants of Taliwood
The Miscreants of Taliwood
| 01 June 2009 (USA)
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The Australian maverick director George Gittoes travels to Terror Central in Pakistan, where he decides to shoot a local Pashto telie film (high on kitsch and machine guns) right under the nose of the Taliban’s anti-entertainment forces. He throws himself into the clash of fundamentalism and entertainment – virtual and real – in this off-beat docu-drama mix. Gittoes takes us on a surprising, terrifying journey, into the forbidden zones of Pakistan’s explosive North West Frontier. Is it a documentary or is this ‘war art’?

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Matrixiole

Simple and well acted, it has tension enough to knot the stomach.

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Fairaher

The film makes a home in your brain and the only cure is to see it again.

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Catangro

After playing with our expectations, this turns out to be a very different sort of film.

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Keeley Coleman

The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

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