& # 039; A private war & # 039; Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell
& # 039; A private war & # 039; Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell
& # 039; A private war & # 039; Review: Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell
Watch a clip from the movie "A Private War", starring Rosamund Pike. Stock Photo: Aviron
The most compelling reason to see "A Private War" is the impressive performance of Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin, the American war correspondent who died in a bombing while covering the site of Homs in 2012 of the Syrian government. From the external point of view, when it can be, Marie lives a life of internal terror on the border between those who have high ropes and no strings; She is a figure of anguishing contradictions and exemplary courage. But there is another reason to see this very good, if defective, movie. It is someone who risked his life repeatedly to perform an act of faith: to report from the most dangerous war zones of the world with the belief that his readers would care about the suffering he told. I do not want to level accusations of holiness to producers and filmmakers (everyone has their own reasons, like Colvin), but to finance and create a film of this kind in an increasingly rude market and in an increasingly violent world, It is in itself a problem. Act of faith that deserves support.
The director was Matthew Heineman, in his film debut, working on the Arash Amel adaptation of "The Private War of Marie Colvin," an article by Vanity Fair by Marie Brenner. Mr. Heineman is no stranger to the subject of journalism. He directed an excellent non-fiction feature, "City of Ghosts," about an improvised news organization that was attempting, in 2014, to document the atrocities inflicted by infantry soldiers of the Islamic State in the Syrian city of Raqqa. Much of his new film has a strong documentary sense (the filmmaker was the distinguished and distinctive, Robert Richardson), although part of the dramatic writing is awkwardly formulated and too explanatory. (We would understand, without being told by another character, that Marie is addicted to danger).
The first time we met with her is the year 2001 and the place is London, where Marie is imploring her editors in the Sunday Times to send her to the Middle East to report on the plight of the Palestinians. Instead, they send her to Sri Lanka, where she loses an eye for head injuries sustained in a gun battle between government forces and Tamil guerrillas. "There are people dying here and no one knows what is happening," she says in what amounts to her personal mission statement. (You can find a lot of real-life videos of Marie Colvin on YouTube, and another movie that opens this week, a documentary titled "Under the Wire," focuses on her and the photographer Paul Conroy, who was working with her when she died in Homs.
Rosamund Pike as Marie Colvin
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Aviron images
In the course of this film, Marie reports on the combat zones in Iraq and Afghanistan before plunging into the powerful visualized chaos of Syria, and consumes toxic amounts of alcohol and tobacco in the process, despite the allegations of those who admire her. , they attend and love her. (The cast includes Jamie Dornan, who plays Conroy, as well as Tom Hollander, Stanley Tucci and Jérémie Laheurte as Rémi Ochlik, the photojournalist who died in the same bombing that killed Marie Colvin.) A private war "is also the story of Marie's private self-destruction campaign, which erases the horrors she makes vivid for others. In the fierce but laconic portrait of Mrs. Pike, this tormented woman orders a fateful grace under the fire that will consume her.
Write to Joe Morgenstern in joe.morgenstern@wsj.com
It appeared in the print edition of November 2, 2018 as 'Dateline Truth, Somewhere in Hell'.
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