Post-war Bosnia, a laugh a minute?

Friday night in DC, I want to a sneak preview of The Hunting Party at the AFI theatre in Silver Spring. Fantastic movie! I knew very little about the movie, or the director that would be having a Q & A session after the movie. Here's the description I read:

A young journalist (Jesse Eisenberg), a seasoned cameraman (Terrence Howard) and a discredited journalist (Richard Gere) embark on an unauthorized mission to find the no. 1 war criminal in Bosnia; they find themselves in serious jeopardy when they are mistaken as a CIA
hit squad and their target decides to come after them.

OK, so I'm going to see some kind of political thriller, right?

Not. At. All.

This brilliant writer-director Richard Shepard, manages to mix three genres: political thriller, adventure, and comedy. Shepard was the writer-director of The Matador, and apparently directed the pilot episode for Ugly Betty (and has recently been nominated for an Emmy for that).

I had a feeling that I wasn't going to get a typical political thriller from the opening caption on the screen:

Only the most ridiculous parts of this story are true.

It was great to be able to hear from the director his ideas, visions, and what it took to make the movie. Damn, it makes me think how it would be to live a parallel life in the industry that I left long ago.

I told my companion that I wondered what the trailer would look like for this film. Will they show how uniquely mixed the genre was? I got my answer tonight. The trailer played during the coming attractions when I went to see The Nanny Diaries.

And it looked like just another hum-drum political thriller.

Don't let the trailer fool you! Go see it... I think it's supposed to be released mid-September.