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Feb 11, 2019 · Transfixing, uncompromisingly visceral and tonally raw, Heineman’s A Private War is a powerfully traumatic memoir. There comes a time we all need a little reminder exactly what it takes for reporters to report from the war-ravaged countries of our world, to deliver the news of heartbreaking atrocities some would rather keep quiet.
Oct 12, 2018 · But “A Private War” resolves as such an effective memoir because even in its most clichéd moments — of which there are many — it resists easy psychoanalysis. As the film’s title...
Feb 15, 2019 · Rosamund Pike stars as war correspondent Marie Colvin in A Private War, exploring the late reporter’s taste for danger on the frontlines of conflict. Making his switch from documentary to drama, director Matthew Heineman tells us what drew him to her story.
Oct 31, 2018 · “A Private War” is the story of Marie Colvin, a war correspondent for the British newspaper The Sunday Times who placed herself deep into world’s worst conflicts, including strife in Chechnya, Kosovo, Zimbabwe, Sri Lanka and Syria.
“Transfixing, uncompromisingly visceral and tonally raw, Heineman’s A Private War is a powerfully traumatic memoir to a courageous journalist.” - Zehra Phelan, Flavour Magazine “Riveting…A bracing and timely portrait of journalistic courage and sacrifice.”
Dec 4, 2018 · In 2012, while working on a story about war criminals in Belgrade, Serbia, I got a devastating early morning phone call: my colleague and friend Marie Colvin was dead, killed by Bashar al-Assad’s bombs in Homs, Syria. Her roller-coaster life is captured in a new film, A Private War, currently in theaters.
Nov 2, 2018 · For this impressive film pulls few punches in unflinchingly detailing from the inside — graphic nightmares included — the complexity of the effect war had on Colvin and the world surrounding her.
