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Retrograde
Directed by
Matthew Heineman
R
2022
1h 34m
Documentary
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History
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7.3
93%
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Tells the story of the last months of the 20-year war in Afghanistan through the intimate relationship between American Green Berets and the Afghan officers they trained.
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Cast of Retrograde
Sammi Sadat
Self
Matthew Heineman
Director / Producer / Director Of Photography / Editor
Carolyn Bernstein
Executive Producer
David Fialkow
Executive Producer
Baktash Ahadi
Executive Producer
Joedan Okun
Executive Producer
Caitlin McNally
Producer
Grace Zahrah
Co-Producer / Editor
Tim Grucza
Co-Producer / Director Of Photography
Lani Levine
Co-Producer
Olivier Sarbil
Co-Producer / Director Of Photography
Nina Fialkow
Executive Producer
Pablo Garza
Editor
Seth Ricart
Colorist
Daniel Toman
Associate Editor
Joe Degrand
Associate Editor
Alex Linzmeier
Associate Editor
Ruella Rouf
Associate Editor
Phill Skokos
Additional Editor
Tristan Baylis
Supervising Sound Editor
Retrograde Ratings & Reviews
San Jose Mercury News
Randy Myers
Retrograde is an intense, immersive experience that reminds us how ineffective and destructive war can be.
The Daily Beast
Nick Schager
A study of a betrayal and its heartbreaking fallout.
Hey, Have You Seen ...?
Jared Mobarak
A portrayal of hubris and mismanagement on behalf of the world's so-called "protectors" and abject futility on behalf of those who rose to their feet to risk everything in pursuit of a promise left unfulfilled.
Film Festival Today
Christopher Llewellyn Reed
What's lacking is needed context to better ground the current tragedy in the bumbling ineptitude of the past 20 years.
Newcity
Ray Pride
Powerful, intimate observation... of the last nine months of the 20-year American war in Afghanistan... Exhilarating, powerful, even despairing, it is decades of wreckage culminating in moments of physical, if not moral or mental escape.
RogerEbert.com
Sheila O'Malley
Retrograde is a deeply mournful film, and the focus on humans is why.
The Film Experience
Glenn Dunks
For the most part, Retrograde is in service of its subjects and not the filmmaker.
Groucho Reviews
Peter Canavese
History on film. Well edited, bleak...vital journalism.
48 Hills
Dennis Harvey
There is no simple right or wrong among the principle figures here…but there is an almost unbearably sad sense that somehow, "the greatest nation in the world" should have done better by them.
Sunshine State Cineplex
Alan French
This is heroic but essential work to understanding how a decades-long struggle came crashing to its violent conclusion.
Los Angeles Times
Robert Abele
Rather than have talking heads tell us what the ramifications were of the U.S. leaving, Heineman lets the reality of the evacuation shake us into a clarity about choices and consequences.
Salon.com
Sophia McClennen
The film offers an intimate, chilling portrait of the colossal failures, human costs and destructive consequences of the abrupt end to America's longest war.
The Film Stage
Jordan Raup
In many ways, Retrograde acts as a necessary rejoinder to Hollywood depictions of the war such as American Sniper and Zero Dark Thirty.
New York Times
Nicolas Rapold
[A] shrewdly observant film...
Washington Post
Michael O'Sullivan
It is an impressive and yet enormously depressing achievement, if that's the right word.
TheWrap
Katie Walsh
A triumph of access and unbelievable bravery.
The Playlist
Charles Bramesco
This is an American-made narrative, and though Heineman harbors some measure of critical intent toward our government and its rash decision-making, he still takes their line at face value.
IndieWire
Emma Stefansky
There's a combined anxiety and monotony to it all, a feeling of boredom and exhaustion brought on by a decades-spanning conflict.
The Hollywood Reporter
Daniel Fienberg
A beautifully photographed, generally apolitical glimpse of a tragedy.
Variety
Peter Debruge
Over the past two decades, we've gotten more Afghanistan documentaries than we can count, but none of them looks quite like this.
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