American grief over Iraq in the Venice Film Festival

"In Venice, America is finally crying over Iraq", writes Thierry Jobin. For, though the Cannes Film Festival last May announced "the end of 'cool violence', as Martin Scorcese put it, this weekend the Venice Mostra presented two works that indicated a very clear target (Bush) and battlefield (Iraq): In the Valley of Elah, by Paul Haggis and Redacted, by Brian De Palma. ... [The latter film] related ... the rape and murder of a young local inhabitant by American soldiers. ... In Venice, on Saturday, [De Palma] said that he was struck by how, compared for example to the Vietnam war, the Iraqi front is a conflict that we neither see nor feel and that it should thus come as no surprise that public opinion does not get really angry."

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