Highest rated movie: Edvard Munch (1974)
Lowest rated movie: Privilege (1967)
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Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 76%.
Edvard Munch is Peter Watkins's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 44 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Peter Watkins is Privilege, with a score of 69% based on 25 reviews.
Peter Watkins (born 29 October 1935) is an English film and television director. He was born in Norbiton, Surrey, lived in Sweden, Canada and Lithuania for many years, and now lives in France. He is one of the pioneers of docudrama. His movies, pacifist and radical, strongly review the limit of classic documentary and movies. He mainly concentrates his works and ideas around the mass media and our relation/participation to a movie or television documentary.
Nearly all of Watkins' films have used a combination of dramatic and documentary elements to dissect historical occurrences or possible near future events. The first of these, Culloden, portrayed the Jacobite uprising of 1745 in a documentary style, as if television reporters were interviewing the participants and accompanying them into battle; a similar device was used in his biographical film Edvard Munch. La Commune (Paris, 1871) reenacts the Paris Commune days using a large cast of French non-actors.
In 2004 he also wrote a book, Media Crisis, an engaged essay about the media crisis, the monoform and, foremost, the lack of debate around the construction of new forms of audiovisual media.
Peter Watkins has directed films starring Yasmine Garbi, Magnus Eriksson, Carmen Argenziano and Krister Henriksson.
Peter Watkins has collaborated with these film directors: Robert Stengård, Pauli Saastamoinen, Ann Duroj and Thérèse Ferry.
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