Tired of those run-of-the-mill biopics and staid Iraq war dramas that avoid sensationalism out of respect for their subjects? Want a peek into the orgiastic, debauched, ultra-violent underbelly of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq? Director Lee Tamahori brought all that and more to an unsuspecting audience — and conjured his own comparisons to David Fincher’s The Social Network , naturally — with The Devil’s Double , the guiltiest thrill of Sundance 2011.
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The Devil’s Double: The Outrageous, Over the Top Iraqi Scarface You’ve Been Waiting For
