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‘2073’ Review: Director Asif Kapadia’s Dystopian Portrait Of The Future Feels All Too Real – Venice Film Festival
'2073' review: director Asif Kapadia creates a disturbing portrait of the future in his docudrama premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
A mashup of imagery illustrates the current dangerous tilt towards right-wing populism: Muslims being attacked in Modi’s India; Duterte authorizing extrajudicial killings of alleged drug dealers in the Philippines; a tête-à-tête between Trump advisor Steve Bannon and UKIP party leader Nigel Farage, presumably plotting over how to spread their ideology far and white; British-Indian conservative politician Priti Patel, the former Home Secretary, gleefully promising to “end immigration” in the U.K.; footage of the “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017 when then-Pres. Interspersed in the news footage are interviews with journalists who have been warning us about the alarming direction of our world – people like author Anne Applebaum who has elucidated the emerging “unholy alliance” of authoritarian leaders including Putin, Modi, China’s Xi Jinping, North Korea’s Kim Jong Un — and potentially Trump, should he return to power. As themselves: Maria Ressa, Carole Cadwalladr, Rana Ayyub Ben Rhodes, Rahima Mahmut, Silkie Carlo, Cori Crider, George Monbiot, Nina Schick, Chris Smalls, Douglass Rushkof, Carmody Grey, Tristan Harris, James O’Brien, Anne Applebaum, Antony Lowenstein
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