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Hubert Sauper On the Beauty and Nightmare Of ‘We Come as Friends’

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Christopher Campbell
Aug 13, 2015
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By Jamie Maleszka

HUBERT SAUPER -CINEASTA- CONTRA

Within moments of meeting filmmaker Hubert Sauper, you are struck with a certainty: he can assuredly talk with most anyone. His latest documentary, We Comes As Friends, is a jaw-dropping testament to this certitude. Teetering on political parody and the darkest of dark comedies, the film is a dizzying, which-way-is-up exploration of the…

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