2014 Directed by Peter Sattler
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small-town roots. Instead, she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees.
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USA
Sundance Film Festival
Netherlands12
USAR
Iraq
Lebanon
Kuwait
Denmark15
Sweden
UK15
South Korea15
ItalyT
FranceTP
Germany12
Brazil16
Brazil
Denmark
France
Germany
Iraq
Italy
Kuwait
Lebanon
Netherlands
South Korea
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“I never agreed to follow your rules. If I follow your rules it means that I’m agreeing that you have the rights to give me rules, but you don’t.”
Peter Sattler has just made a name for himself after this pretty impressive debut as a writer-director. His screenplay never feels manipulative and he simply tells a minimalist story without being political about it. The film hit home for me because there has been a lot of political discussion in Uruguay as to wether or not the President should’ve accepted the transfer of six Guantanamo Bay prisoners to our country. These prisoners had been discharged in 2010, but no country was willing to receive them. After watching this film, I think…
Strong performances from Stewart & Moaadi, I admire this movie for focusing on misguided patriotism and prejudice. Really well done
That dude being desperate to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows is so relatable
Debuting director, Peter Sattler, has highlighted in this film, Camp X-Ray, the division between prisoner and guard in Guantanamo Bay, the isolation and restrictions instilled on the prisoners, depriving them of the fundamentals of actual living, the consequences of such actions lead them to psychological fractures that justifies their agitations and disorientation, factors that its guards are forced to ignore to maintain the standards of their profession and to ensure the safety of its soldiers.
These ideas are far from novel, but it resonates to its audience through an emotionally gripping arc for its characters, Amy Cole (Kristen Stewart) and Ali (Peyman Moaadi), an insight to their intrinsic development without becoming seemingly intrusive or apparent to its audience, at least…
Alright so Clouds of Sils Maria, Certain Women, and now this? Am I a fucking Kristen Stewart fan now or what? Are you there, God? It's me, Keith. I'm just trying to make sense of my life.
Love, Blondie
I hate men who think they're clever or original for hating Kristen Stewart. My manager was making fun of her the other day, and that meant I had to watch something from her immediately. Let me tell you, there's little that's more rewarding than stanning Kristen bb.
Kristen Stewart and Peyman Maadi are carrying this movie on their shoulders and they are doing it pretty well. This flick gives you somewhat of a view of what might be going on in Guantanamo Bay between the detainees and the soldiers. The story is simple but filled with lots of emotions. Worth watching.
Couldn’t buy into the painfully artificial and shallow writing at all, but Kristen Stewart is unsurprisingly great and makes it watchable.
51/100
The Dissolve review. Very well acted by both leads—I just didn't really believe a word of it. Gitmo's most empathetic guard meets its swellest prisoner.
Films about the military aren't easy to pull off, and one that deals with a sensitive subject like Guantanamo has got to be even tougher. There are so many ways a film like this could go wrong ... bad writing, lousy leads, too many cliches, overly political or patriotic, no character depth, and on and on. Still, Camp X-Ray manages to work, and quite well. It starts provocatively enough when we see a Muslim man getting a hood thrown over his head and dragged out of his home ... then the story jumps ahead eight years. We never find out what he or any of his fellow detainees did or didn't do, whether they are guilty or innocent, the film…
Walking the line between The Silence of the Lambs and Capote, Camp X-Ray is a bleak and claustrophobic film. It is a tragedy in its purest form. I admit I was skeptical of how a film like this would end. I could only imagine a few outcomes, and none seemed to satisfy me. And so I held out. I waited for the end, all the while entranced by the Bennet Miller-meets-21st century David Fincher aesthetic, and when the end finally came I could not have been more pleased with Peter Sattler. I was truly impressed by this one.
