Actress-activist Mimi Kennedy fuels satirical flames in the very funny “In the Loop,” back for a theatrical run in Seattle after opening the Seattle International Film Festival.
“I’m the chair of the Progressive Democrats of America, and I’ve been to Capitol Hill. I know the corridors of power — let’s put it that way. ...”
By Michael Upchurch
Seattle Times
July 26, 2009
Baghdad is never mentioned. The American president and British prime minister stay entirely off-screen. And no parliamentary or congressional sessions figure in the action.
Yet “In the Loop” — a motor-mouthed and epithet-strewn Anglo-American comedy — comes as close as any sobering news report to explaining how the U.S. steered itself into Iraq, with the U.K. at its heels.
The film by Armando Iannucci, director of British television’s political satire “The Thick of It,” feels like the “Dr. Strangelove” of the Iraq War era. It has a stellar cast of British actors (Tom Hollander, Peter Capaldi, Steve Coogan) and American actors (James Gandolfini, David Rasche, Mimi Kennedy) whose improv skills and pure performing chops keep the jittery, talk-filled action going for close to two hours.
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Ed. Note — “In the Loop” is coming to the Rialto in Santa Rosa on August 7th.
