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Limited Release: May 21, 2008; Rated: Unrated; Length: 81 Minutes; Genre: Documentary
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Chris Nashawaty
Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer for EW, and author of EW.com's DVD Insomniac column
Noble in intention but crude in execution, Parvez Sharma's documentary about gay Muslim men and women chronicles a handful of outcasts and their personal ''jihads'' (in Arabic, the word means ''struggle,'' not ''holy war''). The accounts are powerful, but so many of the inter¬viewees' faces are blurred to preserve their anonymity that it feels like you're watching A Jihad for Love through a shower curtain. Still, it's hard not to feel gutted when the daughter of a gay South African man tells him he should be stoned and thrown off a mountain, as the Koran instructs. B
Posted May 23, 2008
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