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Intimate Enemies(L'ennemi Intime)

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France, Morocco · 2007
1h 48m
Director Florent-Emilio Siri
Starring Benoît Magimel, Albert Dupontel, Mohamed Fellag, Lounès Tazairt
Genre Drama, History, War

Intimate Enemies exposes the horrors of warfare through the eyes of a French platoon during Algeria's war for independence. Focusing on the psychological effects of war, the film follows naive officer Terrien and the atrocities he witnesses as he combats a ruthless guerilla force led by a French mercenary.

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Village Voice by

With its sententious air of historical reckoning, Enemies is an impressive monument, but not a moving one.

70

The Hollywood Reporter by Kirk Honeycutt

While following a fairly predictable story line, the film has enough ambushes, treachery and irony to sustain audience involvement with a range of characters that stand for diverse points of view about that war.

75

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

It could be set during the war in Iraq, but the brutal French film Intimate Enemies takes place in 1959, at the height of the Algerian struggle against French rule.

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