There is a moment in Atropia, Hailey Gates’ bold and deeply unsettling feature debut, where an actress — played with biting precision by Alia Shawkat — wanders into what appears to be an ...

Atropia certainly offers both new and interesting commentary in a fresh way — especially considering it examines the Iraq War ...

The film centers on Atropia, a fake city built outside of Los Angeles, full of props and actors meant to prepare American soldiers for deployment in the Iraq War. The concept initially seems ...

Premiering Saturday at the Sundance Film Festival, “Atropia” begins exactly how the short did — with a stereotypically staged Iraqi street becoming a war zone and a man having his leg blown ...

Inspired by Medina Wasl, a real U.S. military training camp in the Mojave Desert, Atropia is fully staffed with actors for all roles, including Jane Levy as Nancy, posing as a war correspondent in ...

So she turned the idea into an unconventional love story instead, and “Atropia” was born ... is anybody gonna care about a movie about the Iraq War? Because I was so mad about it, and she ...

Yet by the end, the script instills a complexity in them by framing both of their lives as deeply fragmented from America’s war on Iraq. Therein lies the genius of “Atropia”: Any cursory ...

Memento International has boarded “Atropia,” the directorial feature of “Uncut Gems” actor Hailey Gates which is produced by “Queer” director Luca Guadagnino. The war comedy stars Alia ...

“Atropia” was the unanimous pick among the three jurors. In their citation, the jury wrote that the film was “both hilarious and damning in its portrayal of the theater of war.” The jury a ...

Welcome to Atropia: an invented city constructed to exercise Western imaginations and soldiers.This mirage of a place is a bizarre, liminal construction of writer-director Hailey Gates ...