Angry Robbins takes anti-Bush satire to Venice

0 Comments | AFP, September, 2004

VENICE, Italy (AFP) — US actor Tim Robbins took the film version of his ribald anti-Bush play "Embedded/Live" to the Venice film festival, while audiences delighted in Indian director Mira Nair's colourful adaptation of Thackeray's classic novel "Vanity Fair".

Robbin's angry satire about the Bush administration's war in Iraq and the complicity of the mainstream US media in its reporting from the early days of the war is the polar opposite of Nair's sumptuous examination of race and class.

"Embedded" was born as a play in a 30-seat theatre in Los Angeles in July 2003 and has been playing to audiences for the past year in LA and New York.

The movie is the film of an actual performance of the play, in places intercut with scenes of the destruction of war and...