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The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Directed by
Zeina Durra
Not Rated
2010
90m
Drama
,
Comedy
,
and more
5.8
83%
71%
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Juggling the sudden abduction of her childhood sweetheart as well as a blooming love affair, a French Manhattanite makes her way as an artist in an indifferent, sometimes hostile world.
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Cast of The Imperialists Are Still Alive!
Élodie Bouchez
Asya
José María de Tavira
Javier
Karim Saleh
Karim
Karolina Muller
Tatiana
Marianna Kulukundis
Athena
Rita Ackerman
Libby
Pierluca Arancio
Marco
Coati Mundi
Officer Lopez
Vanessa Hope
Alicia
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Alison Willmore
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.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Too concerned with being cool to work up much in the way of political outrage, much less narrative drive.
New York Times
Stephen Holden
A multicultural vision of urbanity coalesces that is very different from that of a typical movie of impoverished immigrants trying to assimilate in an outer borough.
Slant Magazine
Bill Weber
A New York artist of Middle Eastern background tries to mesh resistance and romance in Zeina Durra's '70s-textured seriocomic debut.
Variety
Robert Koehler
Nothing is resolved in the film, but Bouchez and De Tavira are exceptionally paired, and attuned to Durra's easygoing intellectual eros shorn of dramatics.
indieWire
Eric Kohn
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The Imperialists Are Still Alive! is an admirable film in many ways as its young writer-director, Zeina Durra, explores a subculture right before our eyes that remains mostly unseen.
Village Voice
Karina Longworth
Occasionally, Durra loses her nerve and spells out her intentions, but she's at her best when both her commentary and her comedy are nearly imperceptible.
The New Yorker
Richard Brody
The filmmaker reserves her very gentle satire for the blithe, class-based assumptions of wealthy Middle Eastern expatriates and the macho traditions of their poorer fellow-migrs.
New York Press
Leslie Stonebraker
But for all it's faults in title, plotting and editing, The Imperialists Are Still Alive! contains the promise of a distinct female voice in independent cinema.
Film Journal International
David Noh
With The Imperialists Are Still Alive!, writer-director Zeina Durra has made a quirkily appealing film which intriguingly manages to feel both slight and authentically weighty at the same time.
Film School Rejects
Neil Miller
If it accomplishes one thing, it is that Durra shows herself to be an exciting young director. She has a sense of style and a sense of character. And her film has a lot of character because of it.
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