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The film makes you ashamed to call yourself a journalist: A Private War reviewed

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

16 February 2019

9:00 AM

A Private War is a biopic of the celebrated Sunday Times war correspondent Marie Colvin who was, judging from this, brave, humane and utterly fearless as well as a drunk, lonely, traumatised and annoying. A complicated human being, in other words. And why did she do it? Why did she risk her life to get the truth out there? No easy answers are offered, thankfully.

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