The Ambassador (Mads Brügger, 2011)
Mads Brügger’s documentary (assuming that most of it is real) is a tour de force of “performative journalism” in which he exposes the corruption of the Central African Republic by passing himself off, serious Borat-style with shadily obtained legit documents to boot, as a diamond-hungry Liberian businessman and diplomat seeking to open a match factory in Bangui. Wildly interesting, yet scattered, loosely knit and bordeline exploitative, The Ambassador remains a direct and riveting dive into European corruption that also happens to be hilarious and frustrating at the same time.
posted: 21 July 2012 @ 04:41
