TO HOUSE OF DYNAMITE
Type: dramatic
Direction: Kathryn Bigelow. With Idris Elba, Rebecca Ferguson, Gabrie Basso, Jared Harris
Kathryn Bigelow, silent since 2017, after the less than enthusiastic reception of Detroitreturns – welcomed into competition by the Venice Film Festival, briefly in theaters and immediately on the platform – with a thriller.
The first woman in history to secure the Oscar for directingdemonstrates that you have at your fingertips all the tools that allow you to create a perfect anxiety machine. AND what better context than geopolitics?
Rebecca Ferguson in “A House of Dynamite” (photo Eros Hoagland/Netflix).
The American defense system seen through the eyes of those who work within it and decision makers. Individuals caught in their daily lives, so similar to ours, by the unexpected event of a nuclear missile launched by who knows who towards American soil.
The presidential chapter is weak: Idris Elba, commander in chief with humanitarian scruples, says a lot about Hollywood and little about the present.
LEGEND
✦ modest
✦✦ good
✦✦✦ excellent
✦✦✦✦ masterpiece
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