The revered auteur also described the doc's director, Matthew Heineman, as 'my hero.'
, which chronicles the end of the war in Afghanistan from the perspective of both the U.S. and Afghan troops on the ground.
“This is a great film,” Anderson said in his introduction of the film, adding of its 39-year-old director/producer/cinematographer/editor, “I admire Matt’s films so much and really consider him a proper filmmaker, unlike the rest of us fakers.” Heineman has ventured into many harrowing situations with his documentaries, which have chronicled, among other things, Mexico’s drug cartels , ISIS and a hospital during the earliest days of the COVID outbreak (2021’s, he told Anderson, was unlike any other: “This was definitely the hardest film that I’ve made thus far in my career — emotionally, logistically, physically. It started out as something and ended up as something completely different.
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