“War seems to define all of humanity”

It’s been eight years since we last heard from Kathryn Bigelow, after the chaotic release of Detroit (2017), about a deadly police raid carried out in the summer of 1967, in the city of the same name, during riots against racial segregation. The controversy then hit the director, born in 1951, hard, accused of appropriating a piece of African-American history. We assumed a less “hot” subject for his return: this is not the case. A House of Dynamiteput online on Friday, October 24, on Netflix, pushes up a notch the climate of high tension maintained since Minesweepers (2009), which won a haul of six Oscars. This new film, which looks like a luxury B series, takes as its starting point the attack of a nuclear missile on the United States, through three points of view belonging to the defense channel. In forty years of career, the director of Point Break (1991) et Strange Days (1995) has not abandoned any of the terms of muscular action that we know. Kathryn Bigelow answers us in sober and sharp sentences. Militarily, straight to the point.

“A House of Dynamite” is based on the premise that the Cold War never ended. What current conditions lead you to think this?

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