BORDERLINES: Fahrenheit 11/9
Dir: Michael Moore | USA | 2018 | 128 mins Taking its title from the date that Trump’s presidential election win was announced in 2016, Michael Moore’s new film is a typically incisive dissection of contemporary US politics. Starting from his immediate reaction to Trump’s election – ‘How the *** did that happen?’ – Moore searches for answers by taking a deeper look at the workings of the US political machinery; not least the voting system within the Democratic Party which prevented Bernie Sanders from becoming the Party’s candidate. As with all Moore’s films, it’s an absurdly funny and unapologetically
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