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I’m more than a little excited for Camp X-Ray‘s release in a couple of weeks. As I mentioned in my review of the film at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, the Guantanamo Bay-set drama features great performances from its leads Kristen Stewart and Peyman Moaadi that cinephiles will love. Stewart detractors would even give the actress props for her portrayal of a Guantanamo Bay guard at wits between her position and her budding friendship with a detainee.
Camp X-Ray will be in theaters on October 17. You can read the film’s synopsis below.
A young woman joins the military to be part of something bigger than herself and her small town roots. But she ends up as a new guard at Guantanamo Bay instead, where her mission is far from black and white. Surrounded by hostile jihadists and aggressive squadmates, she strikes up an unusual friendship with one of the detainees. A story of two people, on opposite sides of a war, struggling to find their way through the ethical quagmire of Guantanamo Bay. And in the process, they form an unlikely bond that changes them both.