De Palma puts Iraq on Venice agenda

September 01, 2007 The Iraq War and the more sinister side of corporate America got chins wagging on the Lido on Friday as the storm clouds cleared and the weekend loomed. Brian De Palma's "Redacted," the account of a squad of U.S. troops in Iraq and the rape and murder of a 15-year-old Iraqi girl and her family, was a welcome shot of adrenaline in the arm for the festival as it entered its first weekend. De Palma, who wrote and directed the buzzed-about title, explained to reporters that "redacted" is the legal term for taking out inflammatory information in documents such as soldiers' letters.

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