‘Love+War’ Review: Pulitzer Prize Winning War Photojournalist Lynsey Addario Balance Horror & Home In Absorbing Doc [Venice]

While documenting the war in Ukraine, and Addario risking her life to document it, is harrowing, one wonders if “Love+War” is going to portray why the photographer is one of the best in the world at what she does, which doesn’t feel like it’s enough. The movie shifts from a straightforward chronicle of Addario’s work in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Ukraine, and beyond, into something more intimate and fraught: the impossible balancing act between her life as a frontline journalist and her life at home in London with her husband, fellow reporter Paul de Bendern, and their two young sons. In her dogged zeal for sharing these images and stories with the planet, Addario is famous for pushing limits and always pushing how long she can stay in a perilous moment to the very edge.

Author: Rodrigo Perez

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