Sundance Reveals the Dark Underside of Political Financing in the USA
Alex Gibney, a Sundance regular, won an Oscar in 2008 with "Taxi to the Dark Side," a documentary about the acts of torture Americans practiced in Afghanistan, in Iraq and in the prison at Guantanamo.
His latest film, "Casino Jack and the United States of Money", is presented in competition at the independent film festival that is taking place in Park City, Utah, until Sunday.
In the film, the director, in a deeply ironic mode, recounts the glory days and decline of Jack Abramoff - presently serving a six-year prison sentence for bribery - who also took several members of the Republican Party who profited from his largesse down along with him when he fell.
"In many respects, Abramoff was simultaneously extremely serious and deeply ridiculous," Alex Gibney declared to AFP. "And some things were too bizarre and amusing to be treated in a serious way. You had to laugh and cry at once. It's a comedy, but the joke's on us," he says.
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