Risk

About the movie

The Oscar-winning director of Citizenfour turns her camera on another controversial figure, WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange, in the midst of his site's biggest disclosures of government documents over the course of half a decade. Rather than picking over the content of Assange’s work itself, Poitras wants to show us him at work, and her film takes us right into the nerve centre of the WikiLeaks operation.
Poitras continues her courageous examination of voices who question authority in an era of ever-increasing surveillance and state secrecy. The camera is here an observer of modern revolutionaries in the digital age: Risk is politics, not cinema. Film’s style borrows from the conspiratorial aesthetic of modern-day thrillers.
“A tense and elegant atmosphere of a John le Carré spy novel.” – IndieWire (B)
“Electrifying moments”- The Guardian (++++)
“The most revealing portrait of Assange and his WikiLeaks staff” – The Hollywood Reporter

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