Plot Summary
A female guard (Kristen Stewart) at Guantanamo Bay forms an unlikely friendship with one of the facility's longtime detainees.
Cast: Kristen Stewart , Payman Maadi , Lane Garrison , J.J. Soria , John Carroll Lynch ,
Director: Peter Sattler
Genres: Drama
One of the strengths of Sattler’s screenplay is his refusal to make this a straightforward drama about enemies, injustice or dehumanizing persecution. He makes it about empathy, and in doing so broadens the intimate story to find thematic universality. show more
With its painfully plain-spoken conflicts and eventually oversold gestures of kindness, Camp X-Ray may offer frustratingly little insight into the hazy world of wartime morality, but if nothing else, it suggests that Stewart may escape her own “Twilight”-shaped prison yet. show more
It is down to the strength of the acting that the film succeeds as far as it does. show more
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