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Plot:
True-to-life chronicle of the Algerian people's struggle to overthrow the French Colonial Government in the mid-1950s. The focus is thrown on the leaders of the Liberation Movement and the French gene...( read more 
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MCT:July 24, 2008Em um filme político é bom que se tente observar sua intenção. Muitos desses filmes pecam no exagero ao culto de figuras políticas e/ou revolucionárias, no intuito de criar mais um sentimento nacionalista do que uma reflexão em si. Não é o caso desse filme, que retrata a luta pela independência da Argélia expondo ambas as opiniões, mostrando então que na luta os revolucionários também sujam suas mãos de sangue. Não se trata da simples lógica maniqueísta dos bonzinhos contra os cruéis, e sim de pessoas buscando se libertar do colonialismo, mesmo que para isso fosse preciso se utilizar da violência.
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MCT:July 23, 2008
This is why I once hated the French. Quite possibly my favorite foreign film. Like most people, from watching the trailer I was amazed when it said that it used no archive footage whatsoever. a masterpiece filmed by a novice director and should be viewed by all.
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MCT:July 21, 2008
It's been said that movies, unlike any other art form, transcend space and time and transport us somewhere else. Movies can promote empathy and can make us concerned with lives that are not our own. Some movies, the really good ones, can even make us better people. The Battle of Algiers is one of those movies.
Based on the true story of Algeria's long struggle for independence, this film chronicles a group of freedom fighters (terrorists) as they attempt to overthrow the French Colonial Government. In it's initial release, The Battle of Algiers hit a little too close to home for Americans who were still wallowing through the muck of their own occupation of Vietnam. I'd wager that, if it were released today, it would have the same effect. It's powerful and brutally honest in its depiction of street warfare. A rare offering that is completely deserving of all the hype. -
MCT:July 19, 2008
This film covers both sides of the struggle and somehow remains relatively neutral. It's hard to believe it's 40 years old.
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MCT:July 13, 2008
Marvelous. Beautiful, tragic, desperate people. So well done, it looks real. CIA/DOD folks showed this to strategists for the Iraq War - you know, as preparation for a resistance. It's quite convenient that Algeria is also a largely Arabic-speaking, Muslim country. Makes it easier to know exactly how to humiliate "our" "enemies".
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MCT:July 5, 2008
How Algiers and Algierins got indipendence!
Winner of Leone d'oro in Venice, is an Italian neo-realism manifesto -
MCT:June 2, 2008
The story of a struggle against all odds for an ideology - a movie that inspired generations of revolutionaries.
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MCT:February 3, 2008
Il y a de ses films que tu entends parler quand tu es jeune ans et que tu te dis un jour je vais le voir (Les 400 coups, Scarface, Metropolis, etc). Ce sont des classiques, tu sais que tu manques de quoi de bon et le jour où tu les vois tu te dis, colisse pourquoi j'ai pas vu ça plus tôt (Citizane Kane, Sunset Blvd, The Killer, etc.).
Et il y a ces films que tu n'as pas idée qu'il existe, tu les vois et tu tombes sur le cul. C'est le cas de la bataille d'Alger. Un film à la fois touchant, bien fait et où on apprend un paquet de truc. À l'époque où certain se demande ce qu'il serait prêt à faire pour avoir un pays, ce film tombe juste à point. Qu'ai-je fait pour vraiment pour l'indépendance? est le genre de question que tu te poses lorsque tu sors de la salle. C'est un must pour toute personne qui s'intéresse au FLQ ou aux luttes d'indépendances à travers l'histoire. -
MCT:January 17, 2008
Pontecorvo's stunningly realised rendition of the struggle against colonialism remains must see viewing for any would be imperialist.
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MCT:January 10, 2008Ugh. I'm not even sure what it was about. Some kind of rebel uprising and it was filmed like a documentary. It was like something they'd make you watch in school.
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MCT:December 29, 2007
Damn. What an amazing piece of work. I actually DID clap at the end (and I was watching it alone). Visually searing, I still can't get certain scenes out of my head. Perfectly sewn together. At times I did ask myself if this was really a movie or real news reels. You get completely sucked in. Just amazing.
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MCT:December 19, 2007
Cold-blooded assasinations, street shoutouts, cafe bombings, riots and torture are the tools used by the Algierian insurgents and occupying French. The warts of both warring factions are shown on both sides in this depressingly familiar, yet utterly fascinating, documentary-style war picture.
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MCT:December 15, 2007
Documentary-style political filmmaking. It's Ali La Pointe representing the FLN, and Colonial Mathier representing the French. What I liked is that the director doesn't choose sides, he simply lets the story play itself out, and convincingly shows the power struggle between the Algerians and the French.
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MCT:November 30, 2007
I've been seeing a lot of movies on the Algerian war and its aftermath, and I can say that this one here, is a straight-up classic. The message is sublime as it is clear and the images and the sound add to a pure cinematic art.
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MCT:November 21, 2007
Incredibly original, even using members of the actual revolution as cast members. The Battle of Algiers documents the events up to the Algerian Revolution with the narratives of several characters. This film offers one of the best dramatic views of colonization and revolution in film. To this day it is influential (still regarded by many as a film of inspiration for the subaltern, while a guidebook for current state departments and their wars). An ultimate classic.
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MCT:November 10, 2007
incredible film and incredibly relevant to what's still happening 50 years later. it's been called a terrorist manual and an anti-terrorist manual and it is both. a visceral experience.
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MCT:October 18, 2007I know I'm supposed to like it- and there was an intense moment or two- but mostly I was just bored.
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MCT:October 9, 2007
fantastic. the very end was awkward given how much time they spent on the details throughout the rest of the film.
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MCT:August 29, 2007
AMAZING movie, may become one of my favorites. I'll know when I watch it again. It's an incredibly authentic re-staging of a native Islamic rebellion against western occupiers, in this case by the Algerian nationals against the colonial French (parallels to current events are too obvious to require mentioning). The movie was made only five or so years after the events it depicts; it was filmed in the same streets of Algiers where it all went down, with an Algerian cast who had very recent personal memories of the rebellion. Indeed, one of the lead actors essentially plays himself, i.e., one of the top leaders of the Algerian rebels. It's just an unforgettable movie.
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MCT:August 22, 2007
I must have seen this film half a dozen times in as many days, it never gets boring is always interesting. It is a superb piece of filmmaking and is excellently shot.
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MCT:August 6, 2007
History do repeat itself.
But Colonial occupation will never work, wheater it's about Algeria, Indo-china or Iraq.
Should be watched by anyone with the slightest interest of history or the present.
Brutal and effektive as a film. And some great chords here and there from Morricone to top it off -
MCT:August 5, 2007
Col. Mathieu: There are 80,000 Arabs in the Kasbah. Are they all against us? We know they're not. In reality, it's only a small minority that dominates with terror and violence. This minority is our adversary and we must isolate and destroy it.
A very good movie depicting the Algerian War taking place between the French and Algerian Nationalists.
It is shot like a documentary, with the subject matter being shown in a sort of gritty intensity, which has gone on to influence many other directors and film styles.
The first half of the story revolves around the nationalists themselves. We see assassinations, bombings, the behind the scenes of these activities, and some of the politics surrounding it.
The second half of the story portrays the government action taken against these nationalists including their own plots, torture, and various other measures.
Its brutal but very true. The movie was made shortly after the war had ended, but the conflict still lives on today.
Also great is Ennio Morricone's score of the film, which adds to the intensity of some of the scenes.
Very well made film that has inspired many more for future years.
Journalist: The law's often inconvenient, Colonel.
Col. Mathieu: And those who explode bombs in public places, do they respect the law perhaps? When you put that question to Ben M'Hidi, remember what he said? -
MCT:July 28, 2007
Brutal stuff. Great for its time, great for even today. So happy this film exists given the subject matter is very important. Very fascinating and very gripping to watch.
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MCT:July 17, 2007
Permitan que les recomiende este film, que es una verdadera pieza maestra. Comenzaré diciendo que es la primera película Algeriana de la historia y, aunque la vi con los subtítulos desfazados (lo cual es verdaderamente molesto), se me hizo una de esas películas que pasaran, y han pasado, a la historia como las grandes obras del cine en el mundo. No sé con qué palabra describirla, solo les diré que es una película digna de un buen analísis, pues muestra como funcionan las rebeliones y las acciones que toman tanto los gobiernos como los mismos rebeldes. Rentenla y veanla, es lo único que puedo decirles.
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