Algerian cinema is perhaps best known internationally for Gillo Pontecorvo's The Battle of Algiers, a landmark of political filmmaking that depicted the fight for independence with a raw, documentary urgency. That film alone shaped how world cinema approaches conflict and resistance on screen. See what Macca makes of it and more below.
Rating: 3.5★
There are political thrillers, and then there are films that arrive so charged with real-world fury that the fiction barely disguises the rage beneath. Costa-Gavras's Z (1969) is very much the latter. Based on Vassilis Vassilikos's 1966 novel of the same name, the film
Genre Drama
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Genre Drama
★★★★ — The Battle of Algiers (1966)
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