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"Fair Game director Doug Liman has described Naomi Watts&amp;#039;s performance in his political drama as &amp;quot;extraordinary&amp;quot;. Speaking to Movieline, Liman enthused about the Australian actress&amp;#039;s turn as Valerie Plame, a covert CIA spy who was dismissed from the agency after writing a scathing article about the Bush administration. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s the best she&amp;#039;s ever been. She is just extraordinary in the film. I don&amp;#039;t think there&amp;#039;s anybody - I don&amp;#039;t care how hardcore Republican they might be - who&amp;#039;s not going to look at the film and say, &amp;#039;That was an extraordinary performance. That was a once-in-a-lifetime performance,&amp;#039;&amp;quot; Liman said. The director added that he is confident Fair Game can succeed where other politically-charged Iraq war films have failed. &amp;quot;I think [Fair Game[/em]] is in the spectrum of &amp;#039;It&amp;#039;s a really great movie,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;And a lot of other movies that have been about the war or dealt with the war have not been great movies.  &amp;quot;In fact, they&amp;#039;ve been motivated more by politics than by story, and that&amp;#039;s been a turn-off to audiences. This is sort of the first political movie that&amp;#039;s been made where I feel like the commitment was there from the first moment to story and character, and not to politics.&amp;quot; Fair Game, starring Watts, Sean Penn and Ty Burrell, will premiere in competition at this year&amp;#039;s Cannes Film Festival. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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