		French Film Critics: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Louis Bory, Nino Frank, André Bazin, Serge Daney, Raphaël Bassan Paperback. Books LLC 2010-05-05. ISBN 9781155553849
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Purchase includes free access to book updates online and a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer, Jean-Louis Bory, Nino Frank, André Bazin, Serge Daney, Raphaël Bassan, Isidore Isou, Abbas Fahdel, Jean-Louis Comolli, Robert Lachenay, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Noël Burch, Jean Mitry, Christian Metz, Jean-Pierre Bouyxou, Ginette Vincendeau, Hans Lucas. Excerpt: Abbas Fahdel on the set of Dawn of the World Abbas Fahdel (Arabic ) is an Iraqi-French film director , screenwriter and film critic , born in Babylon , Iraq . Based in France since the age of 18 years, he studied cinema at the Sorbonne University until Ph.D . In January 2002, he returns to Iraq with a French passport and films a documentary film, Back to Babylon (film) , in which he asks himself: " What have my childhood friends become? How have their lives changed? What would my life have been like if I hadn't chosen to build my destiny elsewhere? " The country's dramatic situation is the background of this introspective investigation. One year later, in February 2003, when a new war seems imminent, Abbas Fahdel returns to Iraq with the intention of filming his family and friends, and the superstitious hope of protecting them against the dangers threatening them. When the war breaks, he returns to France and loses all contact with his family. Two months later, he returns to Iraq and discovers a country shaken by violence, the nightmare of dictatorship replaced by chaos, but a country where, nonetheless, everything remains possible: the best or the worse. This historical moment is the theme of his second documentary film, We Iraqis . In 2008, he directed the feature film Dawn of the World , a war-drama in which he gives an unexpected account of the multiple impacts of the Gulf Wars and how they have dramatically damaged an area known to be the geographic location of the b

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