A Private War is a bleak and horrifying true story of journalist Marie Colvin. Taking place over 12 years it depicts the many conflicts Marie reported on, giving us a peak behind the curtain as to what was really happening on the battlefields of the Middle East and Asia and the human lives it affected; as well as focusing on the effects it had on her personal life and mental well-being.
It rarely sheds moments of happiness or of levity, but throughout its sombre tale it always strives to relay Colvin’s ethos of showing how war affects real people caught up in the middle of other peoples battles. Rosamund Pike delivers a career best in the lead role and if we don’t see her in the runnings for 2020’s Oscars then I personally will be shocked and appalled. One of the best films of the year so far, but understandably not for everyone.
It rarely sheds moments of happiness or of levity, but throughout its sombre tale it always strives to relay Colvin’s ethos of showing how war affects real people caught up in the middle of other peoples battles. Rosamund Pike delivers a career best in the lead role and if we don’t see her in the runnings for 2020’s Oscars then I personally will be shocked and appalled. One of the best films of the year so far, but understandably not for everyone.