French film project on 9/11 blasted as anti-American

No, really? An anti-American film about Sept 11? And it's French? What are the odds?

What I'm going to call "11 Stupid Short Films about Sept. 11" has some of the usual alt/foreign film stuff, boring but generally unoffensive. And then it has some stuff that is rightly termed "garbage" by Italy's Il Foglio:

Egyptian director Youssef Chahine's contribution is an 11-minute blast at U.S. foreign policy that stars the ghost of a handsome U.S. Marine killed in a terrorist attack in Lebanon in 1983. Chahine lectures the dead Marine on the destruction that U.S. meddling in the world has wrought -- from Hiroshima and Nagasaki to the current Middle East conflict. The ghost is grateful for being enlightened.

British filmmaker Ken Loach features an exiled Chilean living in Britain who writes a letter to the families of the Sept. 11 victims, drawing their attention instead to the events in Chile on Sept. 11, 1973, when a U.S.-supported coup d'etat ushered in an era of torture and death.

Yep, World War II was "US meddling". Pretty much the typical Arab anti-American crap, I'd guess. And what US support for Pinochet (which, don't get me wrong, was criminal) has to do with Sept. 11 is beyond me, and anyone who would be crass enough to write a letter like that...