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An anthropologist of violence | INTERVIEW WITH JONATHAN LITTELL

Discussing his film "Wrong Elements" and the geopolitics of human conflict in Africa
Film is being distributed by French outfit Le Pacte

Before he wrote a novel and directed a film Jonathan Littell was, for a time, an international aid worker. He managed big-scale logistical operations in Africa and attended to war fronts from Bosnia to Syria as part of humanitarian relief teams. Littell, who doesn’t consider himself an optimist, is predictably not a stranger to the savagery of man. That he should be persuasive when writing or ... more >