Article: Film: It's tough being an auteur, you know 11'09"01 - September 11 Various directors 135 MINS, 12A Blood Work Clint Eastwood 110 MINS, 15

Imagine you're commissioning a film about 9/11, composed of 11 shorts by film-makers from around the world. What would you want such a film to be? A monument, perhaps, a sombre slab of a compilation bearing witness to the unthinkable? A celluloid bulletin board, a kind of cinematic CNN, gathering up-to-the-minute responses from global correspondents? Or maybe you'd imagine, as French producer Alain Brigand did, a "cinematographic mosaic", which rather begs the question, what sort of bigger picture are all the disparate fragments supposed to add up to? That's just one question posed by Brigand's diffuse and surprisingly unaffecting project 11'09"01 - September 11. For example, why these ...

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