Philosopher-journalist Bernard-Henri Lévy and co-director Marc Roussel focus on humanitarian crises around the world in documentary 'The Will to See.'
Dispatched by a group of publications, including Paris Match and the Wall Street Journal, to survey the current situations of once headline-grabbing conflicts in Nigeria, Somalia, Libya and Afghanistan, Lévy discovers that war rages on long after the West saw fit to withdraw its support.
Along the way, his visits to the bursting-at-the-seams refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos and the mounting squalor in Bangladesh reveal additional humanitarian crises. Although Lévy’s impassioned dispatches occasionally exhibit a weakness for purple prose, his mission serves a sobering reminder of those left behind as well as the failure to heed warning signs, especially during an alarm-sounding stopover in Ukraine, wherehas given Lévy’s crew permission to join the frontline in the Donbas region, the site of conflict with Putin-backed forces since 2014.
“When you look to the people, you have to see something — brains, minds, thoughts, something,” Zelensky explains to the filmmaker in regard to Putin. “I think he has no eyes.”Even when the news cycle inevitably moves on to the next big headline, Lévy, now 73, and his cameras can be relied upon to remain behind and bear witness to a not so tidily resolved past.
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