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A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler
A Cultural Compass
For the World Traveler

Bernard-Henri Lévy Film Retrospective

Jan 17–18, 2020
11272 Santa Monica Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90025, United States

“Trump and Zuckerberg, though they probably agree on nothing, are the two blades of a pair of scissors that is cutting the fabric of truth to ribbons,” writes the philosopher and activist Bernard-Henri Lévy in his most recent book, The Empire and the Five Kings. Widely regarded as France’s most prominent intellectual, Lévy co-founded the New Philosophers School and has published several books. But he started his career as a war correspondent, and continues to uphold the truth—as gruesome as it may be—by making documentaries. Screenings of four of Lévy’s films—on the Bosnian War (Bosna!, 1994), war-torn Libya (The Oath of Tobruk, 2012), and jihadi fundamentalism (Peshmerga, 2016, and The Battle of Mosul, 2017)—celebrate his important work. Screenings include Q&A sessions with Lévy. —J.V.

Bernard-Henri Lévy in “Bosna.”