September 9, 2002

11'09''01 - September 11 (2002) ***

11 short films about 9/11, ranging from masterpieces ("Mexico", "Iran" and "Burkina Faso") to embarrassments ("United Kingdom", "USA" and "Japan"). Only two episodes, "Egypt" by Youssef Chahine and "United Kingdom" by Ken Loach, could be described as anti-American.

"Iran" (Samira Makhmalbaf) ****
"France" (Claude Lelouch) ***
"Egypt" (Youssef Chahine) **
"Bosnia-Herzegovina" (Danis Tanovic) **
"Burkina Faso" (Idrissa Oudraogo) ****
"United Kingdom" (Ken Loach) *
"Mexico" (Alejandro Gonzalez inarritu) *****
"Israel" (Amos Gitaï) ***
"India" (Mira Nair) ***
"USA" (Sean Penn) *
"Japan" (Shohei Imamura) *