10h 20min, jan 29, 2021 y - MINAMATA BBC Culture Andrew Levitas Instagram
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FROM BBC CULTURE:Minamata
W Eugene Smith was one of the US's greatest and most influential photojournalists. He was injured by mortar fire while chronicling the fighting in Japan during World War Two, and then, in 1971, he returned to the country to document an environmental catastrophe: a chemical company had been dumping toxic waste near the town of Minamata, resulting in deformities and neurological damage. Andrew Levitas's powerful drama stars Johnny Depp as Smith. Jessica Kiang at Playlist says that he "gives his best performance in quite some time", and that "Levitas' unusually even-handed approach works to balance the film's inspirational true story with its tragic real-world context... while sensitively outlining the everyday heroism of the ordinary men and women most grievously affected".
Released on 5 February in the US and Canada
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