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

By Jamie Maleszka

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…