Extraordinary Rendition - Preview & competition
Preview by Jack Foley
DVD SPECIAL FEATURES: Interview with Omar Bedouni & Jim Threapleton at Edinburgh Film Festival; Teaser/Trailer; Director’s & Producer’s commentary.
A MAN is abducted from the streets of London and transported via secret flights to an unknown country.
Held in solitary confinement and cut off from the outside world, he is plunged into a lawless nightmare of detention without trial, interrogation and torture. Returned without explanation to the UK many months later, he’s left to pick up the pieces of a shattered life in a world he no longer recognises.
Since September 2001, more than 1,100 people have been illegally transported by the CIA to countries which practice torture. This practice is commonly known as “extraordinary rendition”.
Writer-director Jim Threapleton’s film, which is being shown on BBC Television on April 30 (2 days after its DVD release), stars Omar Berdouni as the terror suspect and Andy Serkis as his interrogator.
It’s been described by Time Out as a worthwhile film that makes the most of modest resources. “The horrifying immediacy of these sequences certainly brings the whys and wherefore of the war on terror into sharp focus, particularly the legality of operations…” it adds.
The film is a certificate 15 and runs for 77 minutes.
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very good film
— jennifer buckley Apr 26 #