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“In the Valley of Elah” premieres today

September 14, 2007
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 The movie director Paul Haggis has gathered starring Tommy Lee Jones, Susan Sarandon, and Charlize Theron in a new movie “In the Valley of Elah”. The movie will premiere at the Venice Film Festival. "The Valley of Elah" (by the way, is a Biblical reference to the place where David defeated Goliath and thus helped the Israeli defeat the Philistines) was presented at the Venice Film Festival.

The film tells the story of war veteran Hank Deerfield (Tommy Lee Jones), his wife Joan (Susan Sarandon) and the search for their son Mike (Jonathan Tucker), a soldier who recently returned from Iraq but has mysteriously gone missing, and the police detective (Charlize Theron) who helps in the investigation.
"In this movie, I'm playing the father of a damaged veteran of war. And I think the father is damaged in his own way, and the damage he's undergone is that he's suffering from blind, ethnocentric patriotism, and he pays a price for that in his own way", Tommy Lee Jones comments.

This movie is primarily character-based. The physicality and emotion that it transmits resonate on screen and make up an unforgettable atmosphere. Check out the trailer below – and prepare to be impressed.

"I'm not a fan of words because I have a strong understanding for how powerful the physical can be. When Paul [Haggis] was starting my part, I asked him to cut down the lines; it was intense dialogue and that's why I really liked this character (...). I always say I'm a great actor when I'm not saying anything and you're shooting me from behind, always" Charlize Theron added when asked about the virtues of the chemistry between the main characters.


Also, Charlize Theron admits to having in fact decided against enhancing the political side and focused on the her character. "This story was the truth, that really happened", she says. "My character wasn't part of the real story. But as a human level, that really touched me, and I really wanted to tell it. This was a human story, it was the truth. Politically, I didn't feel there was any agenda; I didn't feel like this was pro-war or against war".

In "The Valley of Elah" movie, the director Haggis enlisted the help of real soldiers who had served in Iraq, and whom he used to constantly remind the professional actors that they were making a movie about real experiences and that they were depicting real people's lives.

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