Marie Colvin story at Thame Cinema tonight!

JUST prior to the release of this film in February of this year, a US court found Assad’s regime guilty of the extrajudicial killing of Times correspondent Marie Colvin.

She was in Homs in 2012, in the first year of the Syrian civil war, intent on revealing the fiction that the Syrian regime did not deliberately target the civilian population.

Heineman’s film is an impassioned portrait of Colvin and her career immersing herself in bloody conflicts, putting herself in places that were off limits, and – crucially – ensuring that the voices and stories of ordinary people made it into the official record of military brutalities.

Based on a Vanity Fair article about the conflict between Colvin’s work and her troubled private life, it is a gripping portrait of someone ruthlessly dedicated to telling the truths that governments take lengths to obscure.

Rosamund Pike is outstanding as a deeply convicted but also vulnerable woman, addicted to the dangers of a job that always means putting her life at risk, but also coping with the fallout. She attempts to reconcile her need to remain at the peak of her game – and the pressure exerted by her publishers – with what that pursuit has cost her: post-traumatic stress disorder, alcohol abuse, loneliness in her relationships. A cracking portrait of an exceptional woman with an outstanding supporting cast.

Saturday November 2nd, 8pm “A Private War”

UK 2018, 110 minutes, 15 certificate

Official trailer HERE

Top film but we don’t expect to sell out. Tickets on the door from 7.30pm

Directed by Matthew Heineman, Starring Rosamund Pike, Tom Hollander, Jamie Dornan, Stanley Tucci, Faye Marsay, Greg Wise

Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame – Doors Open 7:30pm _ Licenced Bar