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- 2018
- R
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 2018
- R
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
Summary In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado...
Directed By: Matthew Heineman
Written By: Arash Amel, Marie Brenner
- 2018
- R
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
- 2018
- R
- Aviron Pictures
- 1 h 50 m
A Private War
75
7.0
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Summary In a world where journalism is under attack, Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike) is one of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time. Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless, while constantly testing the limits between bravery and bravado...
Directed By: Matthew Heineman
Written By: Arash Amel, Marie Brenner
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
75
78% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
22% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 32 Critic Reviews
75
78% Positive
25 Reviews
25 Reviews
22% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Heineman himself has said he feels an “enormous kinship” with Colvin’s commitment to revealing the human cost of conflict. And that, despite all her personal flaws, is what makes Colvin’s story so profoundly moving.
Pike is magnificent in this part, giving us layers to the hard-drinking live-for-today chain-smoker who could be moved to tears, repeatedly, by the suffering she saw.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
7.0
71% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
24% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 59 User Ratings
7.0
71% Positive
42 Ratings
42 Ratings
24% Mixed
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
5% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Es un drama crudo, realista y emocionalmente violento, en varias escenas me sentí realmente conmovido y devastado por el realismo de varias escenas que muestran sin tapujos las consecuencias de los ataques que se llevan a cabo durante un conflicto bélico. Rosamund Pike como protagonista hizo un trabajo magnífico, su personaje fue totalmente creíble y llegas a sentir la angustia que ella debe de haber sentido al ver tanta violencia y su implacable compromiso con el mundo para que se sepan las cosas que ocurren.
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After watching this movie, I understand why people aren't crashing down the doors down to see this movie. It's heart wrenching and brutal about bad people in high places misusing their "power" and then lie about it to the public. It shows journalists trying to expose this at a high cost to their health and lives. What's disheartening is that those things are still happening today. Rosamund Pike, Jamie Dornan, and their fellow actors make us feel their horror as they witness atrocities, one after the other. It's a well-written film about inhumanity in the world we must not allow to continue. It shows the people who try to fight it and the people who try to report it, which makes this a hard film to watch. The film showed the violence, without film goers always having to witness it, because seeing the after was enough to realize what had happened by these unscrupulous people in power.
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By the time the narrative comes to Colvin’s greatest get — she was essentially the first Western journalist to get inside Homs and refute Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s bold-faced lie that he wasn’t bombing his own people into oblivion — the price of that sacrifice, and the power of her story, feels finally, fully real. Whatever her private battles, War works hard to be the public reckoning her work deserves.
Colvin’s downward spiral not only sucked the positive energy from her friends and colleagues, but it will take it away from you as well. Quite frankly, this is a good thing. Films don’t always have to end with rainbows and lollipops to be powerful.
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.
The film’s relative failure to engage with the more quotidian details of Colvin’s behind-the-scenes existence is a shame, because it is here that some real clues to her personality might have been found.
Aside from the striking scenes occurring on the battlefronts, everything else in this picture is subpar. “A Private War” works off a disjointed script and tells a dull story, populated with forgettable characters. Pike throws herself into Marie, and the intensity of her commitment is palpable, but the flashy performance feels soulless.
This is a great movie of Marie Colvin who died in Syria.This movie reminded me that our world was not **** really wanted people to know situations in Syria and other **** you are interested in international relations, please watch!
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A fascinating film about war and war correspondents. It’s also a film that is neither pro- nor anti-war. Its view is that war happens, and war correspondents are unique and driven people who cover these catastrophes. Rosamund Pike gives an incredible performance as Marie Colvin, a driven and, in many ways, enigmatic British reporter. The only weak point was the suggestion that Colvin became a war correspondent because she had two failed pregnancies – or perhaps that is what Colvin told people to explain her inexplicable life.
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Rosamund Pike plays celebrated war correspondent Marie Colvin, who was dauntless in covering some of the most notorious conflicts in recent history. This film spends more time with her on assignment than it does revealing much about her personal life and what drives her. As such, this is a war movie that re-creates some dispiritingly tragic situations, but the emotional impact of such horrors never grabs hold. Combine that with the cursory personal insights and you have an informative, but not especially moving biopic. Still, Pike manages to bring a strong, stolid resolve to her courageous, yet venerable character.
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This film follows war correspondent Marie Colvin and chronicles several years of her life as she dedicates herself to traveling to several war-torn countries in order to allow civilian voices to be heard and share their stories of fear and suffering during their dangerous and uncertain times. The film isn't without its poignant and harrowing moments, but it moved at a slower pace than I was hoping or expecting. However, this did also allow the difficult-to-watch imagery in several scenes to really sink in at times. Furthermore, Rosamund Pike gives a bold and fearless performance as Colvin, and certainly honors her and all that she stood for very well. Overall, the film really does take its time unfortunately and I was hoping for it to move at a slightly faster pace, not to mention that similar ground has been covered several times already in other films like this, but Pike and her solid performance is the true standout of the film and makes it slightly worthwhile.
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Production Company
Acacia Filmed Entertainment,
Savvy Media Holdings,
Thunder Road Pictures,
LB Entertainment,
Denver and Delilah Productions,
Kamala Films,
Zaman Productions
Release Date Nov 2, 2018
Duration 1 h 50 m
Rating R
Tagline The Most Powerful Weapon is the Truth
Awards
Golden Globes, USA
• 2 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 3 Nominations
Hollywood Music In Media Awards (HMMA)
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
