This Ain't No Heartland

Name: This Ain't No Heartland
Genre: War, Documentary
Released: March 10, 2004
Duration: 105 min
Rating: 43

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Autlook Filmsales | Release Date: March 10, 2004

Summary: An outsider’s look at the atmosphere in the American midwest at the beginning of the Iraq war.

Genre(s): War, Documentary

Runtime: 105 min

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David Sterritt

What emerges most strongly, though, is a staggering degree of ignorance among everyday Americans about the basic meanings of democracy, liberty, and national security. [20 Aug 2004, p.15]

V.A. Musetto

Horvath has a sensitive eye and ear, mixing good-looking shots of the barren landscape with portraits of the land's eccentric inhabitants. It's a world (scary at times) that most New Yorkers have no idea exists. [25 Aug 2004, p.40]

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Registers as frighteningly typical and indicates how successful the Bush administration has been at convincing Americans that Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11 and armed with weapons of mass destruction. Read full review

Russell Edwards

Given Horvath's multi-tasking, pic is unsurprisingly rough. Nonetheless, for a professional photographer, his DV lensing is disappointing. Read full review

Stephen Holden

In the filmmaker's nightmarish view, the heartland is a decaying citadel of ignorance, boorishness and xenophobia, smugly rotting away in the twilight of the American empire. Read full review

Jack Mathews

This is as cheesy and irrelevant as political documentaries get. Horvath, who is openly critical of the invasion of Iraq, makes game of a handful of Iowans and Nebraskans who are either too dumb, too drunk or too uninterested to have an informed opinion about it. Read full review

Joshua Land

One might expect some insight into nationalist propaganda from This Ain't No Heartland, which opens with a Goering quotation, but Austrian director Andreas Horvath's scattershot film is more interested in advancing the thesis that Midwesterners are all dumb hicks. Read full review

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