Sure to be a hot potato at this month’s Toronto International Film Festival, a new British work, “D.O.A.P.” (“Death of a President”), depicts the autumn 2007 assassination of President Bush at a downtown Chicago hotel.
Director/co-writer Gabriel Range’s film unfolds as a “Frontline”-style documentary, looking at the fictional assassination’s ripple effect on the American-led “war on terror.” The 93-minute drama involves the question of who would plan such a murder and deals with a wrongly accused Syrian-born suspect.
“This is easily the most dangerous and breathtakingly original film I have encountered this year,” Toronto festival co-director Noah Cowan has said of “D.O.A.P.” It premieres in Toronto on Sept. 10 and airs on British television in October.
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