Axis of Evil (film)

Axis of Evil (French: L'axe du mal) is a 2004 France-Canada co-production by Pascal Lièvre about a couple declaring their love for each other with the same words United States President George W. Bush used to announce a war on terrorism.[1]

L'axe du mal
Directed byPascal Lièvre
Written byPascal Lièvre
StarringNathalie Bujold
Pascal Lièvre
CinematographyLaurent Carton
Release date
  • 20 September 2004 (2004-09-20) (Athens Film Festival)
CountryCanada
LanguageFrench

The short is held in the collections of the Cinémathèque québécoise.[2]

Release

Axis of Evil premiered on 20 September 2004 at the Athens Film Festival. It also screened at the 2004 Oberhausen Short Film Festival and was included in a DVD collection of films shown at the event later that same year.[3] The film has since screened at several other film festivals such as the 2007 MIT Short Film Festival and the 2012 Les Rencontres Internationales du Film Documentaire de Fès.[4][5]

Reception

Reception for the short has been positive.[6] Andrea Toal covered the short for Sight & Sound, noting that it was "hilarious".[7] The short was also praised by Cornelia Fleer of Film - Dienst and Boris Trbic of Metro Magazine, the latter of whom noted that it received a positive audience reception at the St Kilda Film Festival.[8][9]

See also

References
  1. Vlessing, Etan (5 April 2004). "Hot Docs! puts focus on int'l war, terror". The Hollywood Reporter.
  2. "L'axe du mal". La Cinémathèque québécoise (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  3. "Verleihprogramm Kurzfilmtage". Film - Dienst. 57 (20). September 30, 2004.
  4. "Africiné - Rencontres Internationales du Film Documentaire de Fès 2012". Africiné (in French). Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  5. "MIT Short Film Festival 2007 - Saturday, April 14, 2007". web.mit.edu. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  6. O'Driscoll, Bill. "My Terrorism Video Festival". Pittsburgh City Paper. Retrieved 2022-05-24.
  7. Toal, Andrea (July 2004). "Rushes: Festival Report: Future Shorts". Sight & Sound. 14 (7): 6.
  8. Trbic, Boris (2005). "From strength to strength the 22nd St Kilda Film Festival". Metro Magazine. 145.
  9. Fleer, Cornelia (May 27, 2004). "Zwischen Gestern und Morgen". Film - Dienst. 57 (11).


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