{"id":8041,"date":"2010-03-16T02:01:48","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T02:01:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/?p=8041"},"modified":"2016-01-28T19:51:53","modified_gmt":"2016-01-28T19:51:53","slug":"interview-jean-stephane-sauvaire-on-johnny-mad-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/2010\/03\/16\/interview-jean-stephane-sauvaire-on-johnny-mad-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview: Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire on Johnny Mad Dog"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Johnny Mad Dog<\/a><\/strong> is a\u00a0riveting and brutal examination of child soldiers in Africa\u00a0which ranks amongst the best war films in recent memory.<\/p>\n

Although nominally set in an unnamed African country, it was shot in Liberia – still recovering from a long civil war – and makes use of former child soldiers and documentary-style techniques to create a hellish recreation of a contemporary issue.<\/p>\n

Based on the 2002 novel Johnny Chien M\u00e9chant<\/a> by the US-based Congolese author Emmanuel Dongala, it brings to life the reality of a difficult and disturbing subject.<\/p>\n

I recently spoke with director\u00a0Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire<\/a> about the film and you can listen to the interview by clicking below:<\/p>\n[audio:http:\/\/filmdetail.receptionmedia.com\/Jean_Stephane_Sauvaire_on_Johnny_Mad_Dog.mp3]\n

You can download this interview as a podcast via iTunes by\u00a0clicking here<\/a><\/p>\n

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Johnny Mad Dog<\/strong> is out now on DVD from Momentum<\/em><\/p>\n

> Download this interview as an MP3 file<\/a>
\n> IMDb entry<\/a>
\n>\u00a0Buy Johnny Mad Dog on DVD from Amazon UK<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interview with Jean-St\u00e9phane Sauvaire, the director of Johnny Mad Dog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,19],"tags":[1348,1342],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8041"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16354,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8041\/revisions\/16354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.filmdetail.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}