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The Propaganda Game (15)
Directed by Alvaro Longoria
4/5
“ALL art is propaganda. It is universally and inescapably propaganda; sometimes unconsciously but, often deliberately, propaganda,” the US author Upton Sinclair once declared.
This documentary, which relies upon privileged filming in North Korea, is an absorbing cinematic essay that tends to confirm Sinclair’s observation.
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