The Trial of the Chicago 7 (2020)
Country: US/GB/IND
Technical: col/2.39:1 129m
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frank Langella
Synopsis:
Following Nixon's election in 1968, a vengeful Attorney General calls for an indictment of eight representative figures of the various groups that had converged on the Democratic Convention the previous year; their aim: to gain publicity for the Stop the War in Vietnam movement.
Review:
Juridical reconstruction is adumbrated where necessary by freestyle re-enactments of earlier, and indeed later, events in this compelling and smartly written courtroom drama. The virtues of traditional Hollywood filmmaking have not lost relevance, with their power to inform and entertain in equal measure.
Country: US/GB/IND
Technical: col/2.39:1 129m
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frank Langella
Synopsis:
Following Nixon's election in 1968, a vengeful Attorney General calls for an indictment of eight representative figures of the various groups that had converged on the Democratic Convention the previous year; their aim: to gain publicity for the Stop the War in Vietnam movement.
Review:
Juridical reconstruction is adumbrated where necessary by freestyle re-enactments of earlier, and indeed later, events in this compelling and smartly written courtroom drama. The virtues of traditional Hollywood filmmaking have not lost relevance, with their power to inform and entertain in equal measure.
Country: US/GB/IND
Technical: col/2.39:1 129m
Director: Aaron Sorkin
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Mark Rylance, Sacha Baron Cohen, Frank Langella
Synopsis:
Following Nixon's election in 1968, a vengeful Attorney General calls for an indictment of eight representative figures of the various groups that had converged on the Democratic Convention the previous year; their aim: to gain publicity for the Stop the War in Vietnam movement.
Review:
Juridical reconstruction is adumbrated where necessary by freestyle re-enactments of earlier, and indeed later, events in this compelling and smartly written courtroom drama. The virtues of traditional Hollywood filmmaking have not lost relevance, with their power to inform and entertain in equal measure.