The Imperialists Are Still Alive!

Name: The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Genre: Drama
Released: April 22, 2011
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 63

2011

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Hi, Jack Films | Release Date: April 22, 2011 | Unrated

Summary: A successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purportedA successful visual artist working in post-9/11 Manhattan, Asya lives the life of the hip and glamorous, replete with exclusive art parties, supermodels, and stretch limousines while she carefully follows the situation in the Middle East on television. Asya learns that her childhood friend, Faisal, has disappeared-the victim of a purported CIA abduction. That same night, she meets Javier, a sexy Mexican PhD student, and romance blossoms. Javier finds Asya's conspiracy theories overly paranoid-but nothing in Asya's world is as it seems. Asya's life is reflective of the themes of cultural fusion, and the complications and humor that arise simultaneously out of everyday life. (Hi, Jack Films)… Expand

Director: Zeina Durra

Genre(s): Drama

Rating: Unrated

Runtime: 90 min

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IndieWire Eric Kohn

Apr 16, 2011

The first-time director's refreshingly credible portrait of a boho character with Middle Eastern origins rectifies the aforementioned canonical gap in a witty, naturalistic generational snapshot. Read full review

Alison Willmore

Apr 14, 2011

The film is ultimately more interesting than engaging; Durra doesn't yet have a grasp of the simultaneous warmth and needle-sharp satirical sense that infuse Stillman's films. Read full review

Kirk Honeycutt

Mar 1, 2011

The film is fresh and funny, but it is also meandering, at times vague and defiantly uncommercial. Read full review

Stephen Holden

Apr 14, 2011

If The Imperialists Are Still Alive! doesn't go much of anywhere despite its peripatetic characters, that stasis seems intentional. Read full review

Lou Lumenick

Apr 15, 2011

Godardian title not withstanding, Zeina Durra's not-uninteresting slice of the downtown Manhattan demimonde is too concerned with being cool to work up much in the way of political outrage, much less narrative drive. Read full review

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