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On the Front Line: The Collected Journalism of Marie Colvin
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Veteran Sunday Times war correspondent, Marie Colvin was killed in February 2012 when covering the...
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A Private War (2018)
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Celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin is a woman who is as comfortable downing martinis with...
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Awix (3310 KP) rated A Private War (2018) in Movies
Feb 23, 2019 (Updated Feb 24, 2019)
Solid biopic detailing the last years of the celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin, including visits to Sri Lanka, Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya and Syria. To some extent it constitutes a catalogue of recent sources of liberal shame, and there are moments when the film threatens to become sanctimonious, trite, and portentous, but the performances from Pike and Dornan are strong and keep it authentic.
Obviously the film is about the role of war correspondents and the role they play in our society, but the film also works on a more personal level, about what exactly it was that drove someone like Colvin to put her life in danger time after time. If it never quite gets to the bottom of this, that's probably excusable as she herself probably couldn't have said. A serious, well-made film.
Obviously the film is about the role of war correspondents and the role they play in our society, but the film also works on a more personal level, about what exactly it was that drove someone like Colvin to put her life in danger time after time. If it never quite gets to the bottom of this, that's probably excusable as she herself probably couldn't have said. A serious, well-made film.
![Under the Wire: Beseiged and Critically Wounded, My Escape from Syria](/uploads/profile_image/e51/65a461be-e317-4559-a1e6-417ff7bb2e51.jpg?m=1522361638)
Under the Wire: Beseiged and Critically Wounded, My Escape from Syria
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Determined to cover the Syrian regime's brutal crackdown on dissent and the devastating impact of...
![We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent](/uploads/profile_image/080/e43b7b5d-ffe1-4fb8-95e3-88ec00951080.jpg?m=1522328313)
We Chose to Speak of War and Strife: The World of the Foreign Correspondent
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In corners of the globe where fault-lines seethe into bloodshed and civil war, foreign...