2020 · documentary
The Dissident
Directed by Bryan Fogel1h 59m2020
When Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi disappears after entering Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, his fiancée and dissidents around the world are left to piece together the clues to a brutal murder and expose a global cover up perpetrated by the very country he loved.
Our read: The Dissident (2020) reads as a heavy, kinetic, grounded documentary entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Heavy, kinetic, extreme documentary, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, epic, cold.
- heavy
- brisk
- extreme
- bleak
- cold
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