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The Brink (15)
Directed by Alison Klayman
THE BRINK is a stomach-churning and at times hard to watch fly-on-the-wall documentary, with Steve Bannon coming across as a slippery Arthur Daley-style wheeler and dealer, minus the latter’s charm.
Wearing two shirts at all times, he peddles his influence and far-right wing ideology at home and abroad.
Director Alison Klayman was given unprecedented access to the White House chief strategist as she followed him from autumn 2017 to the US mid-term elections last year, travelling with him on his whistle-stop tour of Europe.
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