Word: pontocorvo
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...moving revolutionary film I've ever seen (which would be true) because maybe if I saw it now the emotional impact would make me suspicious that it evades important political issues. I do remember that it accounts for some of the tearing moral ambiguities of that struggle. But Gillo Pontocorvo's Algiers reminds that on an important level the 'complexities' don't matter. When the wailing city is such a resonant setting for collective, almost subconsciously-communicated solidarity, it's the heart, rather than the political head, that never forgets the statement...
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