Review of Risk (2017) by Andre M — 22 Jul 2017
Laura Poitras has become a cinema master. This film is brilliantly shot, edited, and directed by Ms. Poitras (along with a talented editing, camera, and production crew.
If you're a fan of high-toned political action pictures in the style of Costa-Gavras, Alan J. Pakula, Kathryn Bigelow, or Tony Scott, Poitras has knit together a documentary film so good-looking, telling this maddening political story cinematically with beautiful photography. It's lead subject of course is the only mildly charismatic Julian Assange whom Poitras and crew filmed nearly all the way up to the present, making Poitras' film highly dramatic and stunningly real. Mix this with the current U.S. political reality and you have a brain-teasingly breathtaking effort.The only slow moments were as the camera snuggled in for one more long take of Assange gazing toward the lens again to opine, pose, conduct phone calls. Otherwise watching this doc was entertaining and mind-blowingly factual. Poitras and crew deserve Oscars.
This review of Risk (2017) was written by Andre M on 22 Jul 2017.
Risk has generally received positive reviews.
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