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 ...

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 ...

Sundance: Directed by "Challengers" actress Hailey Gates, "Atropia" gives the War on Terror its own take on "The Truman Show." Case in point: One early sequence in ...

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 ...

It’s a hellish war zone, and it’s entirely fake. This is Atropia, the fictional town named after a very real military training camp in the Nevada desert. It’s the subject of Hailey Gates ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s a hellish war zone, and it’s entirely fake ... He challenged her to write the script for “Atropia” in only four weeks. “It was my most romantic writing experience because ...