Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
Chris Hondros sought to reconcile peerless beauty with unfathomable atrocity, and Greg Campbell’s film follows suit.
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Director
Greg Campbell
Cast
Chris Hondros,
Tim Hetherington,
Pancho Bernasconi,
Greg Campbell,
Justin Merriman,
Todd Heisler
Genre
Documentary
The film follows the life and career of award-winning conflict photographer, Chris Hondros. Starting with the war in Kosovo in 1999, Hondros has born witness to more than a decade of strife and conflict before being killed in Libya in 2011. The film also tells the untold backstories behind his most influential photographs.
Slant Magazine by Chuck Bowen
Chris Hondros sought to reconcile peerless beauty with unfathomable atrocity, and Greg Campbell’s film follows suit.
Movie Nation by Roger Moore
Journalists are being targeted in combat zones around the world. Hondros highlights that danger and brings out the humanity in a career that was above and beyond the stereotypes of their profession.
Village Voice by Daphne Howland
In an era when the propaganda machines of conflicts like Syria are imperiling photojournalists’ work all the more, Campbell’s homage to his friend is a thorough look at a straight shooter.
Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan
Because of that private connection, Hondros is definitely a personal documentary, with the loss and pain Campbell is still experiencing taking center stage more often than might be ideal. But that connection also leads to some detours that might not have happened otherwise, sequences that show what made Hondros special as a photographer and a person.
The New York Times by Glenn Kenny
If the movie doesn’t go more than skin deep in interrogating questions about interventions both military and journalistic into the Middle East, it does succeed in opening up Mr. Hondros’s contradiction-filled world.
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