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Harrison's Flowers

Drama Harrison Lloyd is a Pulitzer-winning photojournalist. His wife and family are making it hard for him to keep his mind on his work when he's in a war zone, and he wants to change jobs to something less stressful. But he's got one last assignment, in war-torn Yugoslavia, in 1991, at the height of the fighting. Word comes back that he apparently died in a building collapse, but his wife Sarah (also a journalist for Newsweek) refuses to ... [+]
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United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"The movie exhibits the usual indifference to the issues involved. Although it was written and directed by Elie Chouraqui, a Frenchman, it is comfortably xenophobic."
United States
Boston Globe
A powerful portrait of modern journalism and the nobility -- and futility -- of chronicling modern war"
United States
Chicago Reader
"It's ultimately a losing battle when the audience's lack of interest in eastern Europeans is assumed at the outset."
United States
Chicago Tribune
"A powerhouse of a film about modern journalism and war, with battle scenes that have the immediacy and impact of the famed opening sequence of 'Saving Private Ryan.'"
United States
Variety
"Provides powerful drama thanks to its trenchant core story and harrowing re-creation of the brutal chaos of war."
United States
"What's strong and true in Harrison's Flowers falls victim to what's familiar, melodramatic and false."
United States
Entertainment Weekly
"There's no denying the vividness with which the French cowriter-director Elie Chouraqui has visualized the chaos of Croatia."
United States
Los Angeles Times
"Leaves us with a heightened appreciation of the bold and personal films made by a number of filmmakers of the former Yugoslavia"
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