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Going nuclear: Kathryn Bigelow back in geopolitical territory with atomic thriller

The Guardian - Media · Nadia Khomami · last updated

A House of Dynamite, told from perspective of White House officials, will premiere at Venice before Netflix rollout

An unattributed missile is launched at the US, setting off a desperate effort inside the White House to determine who fired it and how to respond: not the latest news headline but the premise of Kathryn Bigelow’s political thriller A House of Dynamite, which will premiere at the Venice film festival.

The film marks a return to the large-scale, geopolitically attuned storytelling that made Bigelow one of the most decorated directors of her generation.

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