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Armadillo

Denmark

2010

101 Min
Color
1.85:1
English, Pashtu, Danish
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DIR Janus Metz Pedersen

PROD Ronnie Fridthjof, Sara Stockmann

DP Lars Skree

ED Per K. Kirkegaard

MUSIC Uno Helmersson, Mug Shot

Cannes (Semaine de la critique), Karlovy Vary (Documentary Films in Competition), Toronto (Real to Reel), London (Cinema Europa): Best Documentary, São Paulo (International Perspective), Vancouver, SXSW (SX Global), Transilvania (What's Up Doc), Helsinki (Danish Treats), Melbourne (Documentaries), Belfast (Documentary)

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Documentarist Janus Metz and cameraman Lars Skee spent six months with a group of Danish soldiers at the Armadillo army base in Afghanistan. The outcome of their work is a gripping and highly authentic war drama that was justly awarded the Grand Prix de la Semaine de la Critique at this year’s Cannes film festival. —KVIFF

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Omnimog

15May12

A perfect documentary on so many levels. Incredibly well directed and edited, not biased or coloured in any way. And a director well placed in a position as an observer only, even though the drama goes sky high when the troops suddenly are beeing under attack. This is the real story of a group of young, danish men, their dreams, their illusions, and how these experiences mark them and their loved ones as they endure.

philosilentio

21Apr12

Ein Film ohne jegliche Antwort doch mit unzähligen brennenden Fragen nach dem medialen, ethischen und philosophischen Verhältnis zwischen der filmisch vermittelten Realität und deren ästhetischen Genuss . Dieser Film fordert einen völlig neuen Umgang damit auf. Und zwar auf eine aufdringlichste Weise. Er ist ein kopernikanisches Kunstwerk im Zeitalter seiner simulierbaren Wirklichkeit.

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Michael Harbour

16Jan12

Excellent documentary about life on the front lines in Afghanistan

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VENIMOS LOS JODIMOS Y NOS FUIMOS

17Oct11

En febrero de 2009, un pelotón de soldados daneses acompañados por el documentalista Jano Metz y su camarografo Lars Skree, llegaron a una base de los ejércitos inglés y danes en la provincia sureña afgana de Helmand. Durante ese tiempo, Metz y Skree registraron la cotidianeidad asi como las peligrosas (y, por momentos, controversiales) situaciones en las que se vieron envueltos los jóvenes miembros del peloton durante su estancia en la base de Armadillo, ubicada a menos de un kilómetro de las posiciones talibanes. Ganador del Grand Prix en la Semana de la Crítica en el festival de cine de Cannes 2010, este interesante trabajo de Metz es un testimonio de primerisima mano sobre las absurdas (y aterradoras) paradojas afines a la intervención militar de las fuerzas aliadas en Afganistan tras los sucesos del 11 de septiembre. El planteamiento del film (concebido como una especie de drama bélico con formato de "cinema verité") con su visión distante poco enaltecedora de la guerra, no dista demasiado de filmes de ficción recientes sobre el tema. (El referente obligado se trata sin duda de The Hurt Locker, de Kathryn Bigelow.) El film fue un gran éxito en Dinamarca debido a la controversia generada a partir de uno de los hechos registrados: al parecer, tras un enfrentamiento a tiros entre los soldados daneses y un reducido grupo de talibanes, (quienes fueron rapidamente masacrados por los primeros) al final de la balacera, los vencedores no escatimaron los comentarios despectivos ni el escarnio sobre los cuerpos de los talibanes caidos, lo que dió como resultado la apertura de una investigación por parte del ministerio de defensa danés acerca de la cuestionable conducta de algunos de los miembros del ejercito de aquel país que aparecen retratados en la cinta.

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Toronto Lineup. Wavelengths and Documentaries

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ARMADILLO Review

By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
[With brilliant Danish war documentary Armadillo beginning a limited Toronto run on Friday we revisit my previous review.]Director Janus Metz made news when his war documentary Armadillo became the first
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SXSW 2011: ARMADILLO Review

By Twitchfilm.com on December 16, 2011
[With Janus Metz’s Armadillo now screening at SXSW we revisit Todd Brown’s previous review.]Director Janus Metz made news when his war documentary Armadillo became the first documentary ever to screen
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ARMADILLO Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[Our thanks to Brandon Tenold for the following review.]Danish director Januz Metz Pedersen has set a new standard for intimacy in war documentary filmmaking with his debut feature Armadillo, a film that
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SXSW 2011: ARMADILLO Review

By Twitchfilm.com on May 17, 2011
[With Janus Metz’s Armadillo now screening at SXSW we revisit Todd Brown’s previous review.]Director Janus Metz made news when his war documentary Armadillo became the first documentary ever to screen
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Cannes 2010: Astounding Trailer For Danish War Documentary ARMADILLO

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
One of the buzz films of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Armadillo is one of those films that entered the festival quietly but is leaving with a bang. A Danish war documentary set in the current Afghan
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ARMADILLO Coming To US Screens In Early 2011

By Twitchfilm.com on April 29, 2011
Some fantastic news here with word that stellar Danish war documentary Armadillo will be coming to US screens in early 2011 via Lorber Films. The first documentary ever selected to the Critics Week program
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Cannes 2010: Astounding Trailer For Danish War Documentary ARMADILLO

By Twitchfilm.net on September 15, 2010
One of the buzz films of the 2010 Cannes Film Festival, Armadillo is one of those films that entered the festival quietly but is leaving with a bang. A Danish war documentary set in the current Afghan
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TIFF 2010: ARMADILLO Review

By Twitchfilm.net on September 11, 2010
Director Janus Metz made news when his war documentary Armadillo became the first documentary ever to screen as part of Critics’ Week in Cannes. It made even more news when it took home the top prize
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Une autre vision du documentaire

By Benoît on February 6, 2012

Armadillo est de loin un documentaire vraiment étrange. Très fictionnalisé, il n’en demeure pas moins l’une des oeuvres les plus réalistes jamais tournées sur la guerre en Afghanistan, tâchant de démontrer…  read review

The Horror, the horror....

By Viktor Pederse​n on August 28, 2010

The film is structured very effective around the soldiers leave from their hometowns, hungry for “action”, and then goes on following their 6 month stay. We follow a young man named Mads. He seems…  read review

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