One of the very first films I screened at this year’s Sundance Film Festival was Camp X-Ray, an independent drama written and directed by Peter Sattler that starred Krisen Stewart as a rookie guard at Guantanamo Bay befriending and sympathizing with a detainee at the camp. Stewart’s gotten a lot of flak over the years because of her “limited” acting range, but she’s shown signs of her true talent outside of the Twilight films (namely in Into the Wild). Camp X-Ray helps to further illustrate what the young actress is capable of, as I singled out her performance as a true shining pillar in my review.
While the film doesn’t have a US release date set, IFC Films holds the distribution rights, raising the chances that it’ll be released to a wider audience by the end of the year. New stills from the film have been released that help shape Camp X-Ray‘s tone, albeit they’re mostly of Stewart in her guard uniform and Payman Maadi behind bars. Hopefully, when Camp X-Ray is released, audiences will see and understand Stewart’s real acting prowess outside of the grim image that Twilight left on everybody’s minds.
[via The Playlist]
