Samuel Goldwyn Films are hoping to stir up the pot during the politico season, picking up Ami Horowitz and Matthew Groff’s UN, Me and setting it for a September release. Like any large-bodied institution, the UN is a governing body where politics have notoriously hindered efforts by often coming late to the party…and by party we mean genocides, huge scale human rights abuses and violations.
Gist: This takes a harrowing and humorous tour deep into the heart of the United Nations as Horowitz gains unprecedented access to the UN shooting across Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Horowitz constantly throws himself into wild and unpredictable situations that are eye opening, shocking and often hilarious. With unprecedented access, “UN Me” exposes the incompetence and corruption at the core of the United Nations and its disregard for the people and principles it was founded to defend.
Worth Noting: The film has been in mostly third tier film festivals since 2009.
Do We Care?: This looks like low-grade talking heads documentary with Michael Moore-isms and some tactical play of the Yes Men, I’d rather revisit the engrossing condemnation about the utility of the body (with just one genocide case) in the doc Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo Dallaire.