Ausente

You return from Iraq, tour complete. You expect parades, but receive orders to redeploy. The Army invokes “stop-loss,” a back-door draft. Peirce steadies the camera on stateside anguish. The film lingers in the space between duty and desertion.

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Kimberly Peirce directed Ausente in 2008. See Kimberly Peirce's full filmography, where to start with Kimberly Peirce, or where to go after you've seen everything by Kimberly Peirce.

Ausente was released in 2008 (EN original-language production), with a runtime of 113 minutes.