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Source: guardian.co.uk Film

Nov 08, 2009

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>> Loach and Menges go to war Ken Loach is making his first film about the Iraq war. Teaming up again with revered cameraman Chris Menges – for the first time on a feature since Kes, in 1969 – Loach is drawing to a close on his shoot of Route Irish in both Liverpool and Jordan. The film is about two security contractors in Iraq in love with the same girl back home. When one of them is killed on Route Irish – the road linking Baghdad to the perilous Green Zone – the other vows to get to the bottom of his friend's suspicious death, no matter what the authorities say. Although Loach and Menges did work together for a section of the portmanteau film Tickets in 2005, their reunion is a major event in British film. "They're like an old couple on set," whispers producer Rebecca O'Brien. "They bicker a bit and moan at each other, but they have so much respect for each other's work." Loach is working with his regular scriptwriter, Paul Laverty, but is also using unheralded acting talent. But the biggest surprise, I hear, is that the film will contain an unusual num

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