Nella valle di Elah

L'antimilitarismo di Paul Haggis tocca le corde dell'attualità più scottante e non può che suscitare l'applauso delle platee di ogni latitudine

Viewed from one angle — straight on, from the ground level of its busy plot — “In the Valley of Elah” might be mistaken for a tidy crime procedural. A retired military police officer named Hank Deerfield (played by Tommy Lee Jones with his usual brisk, gruff economy) learns that his son Mike (Jonathan Tucker), an Army specialist recently returned from Iraq, has gone AWOL from his base in New Mexico.
Before long, the young man’s charred and dismembered remains are found in the desert, and Hank joins Emily Sanders, a local detective played by Charlize Theron, in trying to figure out who could have done such a terrible thing to his boy. [...]

di A. O. Scott, articolo completo (6397 caratteri spazi inclusi) su The New York Times 14 settembre 2007