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Atropia

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Fayruz is the star thespian of Atropia, a fake country the US military has devised for immersive training. Though she takes great pride in her work, Fayruz believes her tenure here is but a stepping stone on the way to an illustrious acting career in Hollywood. When she meets Abu Dice, an experienced soldier playing the role of an insurgent, their romance quickly threatens their respective ambitions and questions their allegiance to the military and Atropia's purpose. Set on the eve of Bush's "surge", the bloodiest year of the war, Atropia is a comedic love story cast against a uniquely absurd American backdrop.
Atropia

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Atropia's satirical farce of a militarized industrial complex is buoyed by Alia Shawkat's committed performance to a point, but ultimately succumbs under the weight of its own pretense.

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Aisha Harris NPR The film (and especially the excellent Shawkat) juggles a bunch of different tones and it succeeds at some better than others. But it's scrappy and oddball enough to withstand some of its more scattered ideas around the stupidity of war. Feb 28, 2025 Full Review Rocco T. Thompson Slant Magazine In its messy unreality, in the way its characters remain as ignorant in the end as they were at the start of the film, in its looking back at 2006 from our post-fact era, it finds something profoundly simple in the trivial. Rated: 2.5/4 Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Siddhant Adlakha Variety Both its lampooning of U.S. militarism and its central character drama lack follow-through. Feb 3, 2025 Full Review Rachel Wagner rachelsreviews.net It’s unexpected to have something so pro-soldier and military at Sundance but it’s also satirizing the military and especially the press, which makes it interesting. Mar 7, 2025 Full Review Rendy Jones Rendy Reviews Atropia is barely a movie, more of a backdoor pilot for an FX series that would have aired in 2009 Rated: 2.5/5 Feb 20, 2025 Full Review Frank J. Avella Edge Media Network (Atropia) is the stuff of genius satire with a fab ensemble led by the hilarious Alia Shawkat and sexy charmer Callum Turner. Rated: A- Feb 17, 2025 Full Review Read all reviews

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Hailey Gates

Director

Alia Shawkat

Fayruz

Callum Turner

Abu Dice

Chloë Sevigny

Pina

Tim Heidecker

Hayden

Phil Burgers

Lackey

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Synopsis Fayruz is the star thespian of Atropia, a fake country the US military has devised for immersive training. Though she takes great pride in her work, Fayruz believes her tenure here is but a stepping stone on the way to an illustrious acting career in Hollywood. When she meets Abu Dice, an experienced soldier playing the role of an insurgent, their romance quickly threatens their respective ambitions and questions their allegiance to the military and Atropia's purpose. Set on the eve of Bush's "surge", the bloodiest year of the war, Atropia is a comedic love story cast against a uniquely absurd American backdrop.
Director
Hailey Gates
Producer
Luca Guadagnino, Naima Abed, Emilie Georges, Lana Kim, Jett Steiger
Screenwriter
Hailey Gates
Production Co
Frenesy Films, Paradise City, Ways & Means
Genre
War, Drama
Original Language
English
Runtime
1h 44m