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Cannes, France —Laura Poitras’s illuminating Julian Assange documentary “Risk” premiered at Cannes to a warm reception in the Directors Fortnight section of the festival.
This unsettling doc not only humanizes the asylum-captive Assange, but also gives viewers a bitter taste of the oppressive surveillance tactics being used to exert all types of known and unknown forms of governmental skullduggery against civilians the world over.
I had the honor of meeting and speaking to Laura Poitras and journalist Jacob Applebaum after a screening of the film. I was struck by the heavy sense of anxiety that these brave activists live with every second of every day.
They are different from the majority of us in that they fully comprehend the authorial dangers that lurk behind every public and private interaction they have.
Knowledge is power, but in the modern age it is also fear. The filmmakers’ mission is clear. Free Julian Assange. #FreeJulianAssange
Not Rated. 87 mins.
