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Combat Obscura
Directed by
Miles Lagoze
NR
2018
70m
Documentary
,
War
,
and more
6.6
100%
69%
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Created out of war footage taken by combat camera for the Marine Corps.
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Cast of Combat Obscura
Miles Lagoze
Director / Producer
Eric Schuman
Producer
Combat Obscura Ratings & Reviews
FilmWeek (LAist)
Peter Rainer
It's sort of an eye-opener just to see something this unbiased and un-manipulative.
PopMatters
Chris Barsanti
[in this] jangled, jarring Afghan War documentary, a Marine Corps cameraman shows the flippant cynicism of combat in ways the military would rather we not think about.
Film Comment Magazine
Jonathan Romney
This remarkable film comes across as war's backstage story-it's about the stuff they leave out of the official coverage.
Newsweek
Andrew Whalen
Depicts the war beneath the narratives, capturing the soldier's experience with an immediacy that explodes political abstraction, placing it in a more humanist context.
Nonfics (Substack)
Cole Henry
It shows that war is never, ever kind. There is no victory in most victories, and defeat is always near. Yet, the film finds the time to show how humanity can bloom on the battlefield, or maybe it was always there and we've just never had it shown to us.
The Playlist
Gary Garrison
While some films edge closer to the ghastly reality, and others capture the tedium, none seem to embody the stark duality as "Combat Obscura" so fully.
Cinemalogue
Todd Jorgenson
... smartly avoids politics without providing much context, preferring to salute its subjects for their courage and camaraderie.
New York Times
Ben Kenigsberg
Leaning in to the style its patchwork of source material requires, "Combat Obscura" is an eye-opening dispatch from a conflict mired in confusion.
The Hollywood Reporter
John DeFore
A warts-and-all look at in-the-trenches behavior and misbehavior.
AV Club
Lawrence Garcia
It may not offer much more than a hellish, on-the-ground vision of the war in Afghanistan, but perhaps it's enough that Lagoze detonates any lingering illusions of military heroism.
Newcity
Ray Pride
An unfiltered tour-de-force of witness to things that cannot remain unseen... His sense of dynamic montage is a fragmentation of consciousness unto itself: you cannot predict whether kindness will follow confusion or terror comes after raucous laughter.
Slant Magazine
Christopher Gray
The portrait it paints of its Marines is appropriately discordant, redolent of the twitchy frustration caused by a long stint in a sparse landscape with a hazy mission.
The Film Stage
Dan Schindel
War is not fought but lived, and this is as close to first-person as one can get without being there.
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