2014 · documentary
Citizenfour
Directed by Laura Poitras1h 53m2014
In June 2013, Laura Poitras and reporter Glenn Greenwald flew to Hong Kong for the first of many meetings with Edward Snowden. She brought her camera with her.
Our read: Citizenfour (2014) reads as a heavy, steady, grounded documentary entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook, with a strong directorial signature.
Heavy, steady, measured documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- intense
- cold
- epic-stakes
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How Citizenfour feels to watch.
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What watching it is actually like.
“You want a real-time whistleblower thriller about surveillance with no dramatic reenactment.”
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