In "Gunner Palace," the overall atmosphere is pass-the-mike ebullience.

In "Gunner Palace" the war is presented as deadly but vaguely ennobling.

Which is not to say that "Gunner Palace" lacks a moral measuring tape.

Iraq and the United States are both societies full of contradiction, and to watch "Gunner Palace" is to see the contradictions multiply.

In "Gunner Palace," you can sample this art right now, unexpurgated - if you're over 16.

Gunner Palace is a 2004 documentary film by Michael Tucker, which had a limited release in the United States on March 4, 2005.

He later folded images of this angry Iraqi mouthing off to the soldiers - and to the camera - into his 2005 documentary, "Gunner Palace."

"Gunner Palace" is so startling because it suggests - it shows - just how complicated the reality of this war has been.

I hope "Gunner Palace" makes its way quickly from this festival to American theaters, because it is not a movie anyone should miss.

He also directed a documentary in Iraq during the 2003 Iraqi War entitled Gunner Palace.