Profession : reporter Retrospectives 2020

The Post

Steven Spielberg

United States

2017 Fiction 1h56

Daniel Ellsberg discloses information hidden by successive governments about the reality of the stalemate in the Vietnam conflict to the New York Times. First on the sidelines, the Washington Post will get the scoop back thanks to the motivation of its editor to publish the famous Pentagon Papers. Under pressure from all sides, the newspaper's director has to face a reluctant board of directors and the future IPO of her newspaper.

With : Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, Sarah Paulson, Bob Odenkirk, Tracy Letts, Bradley Whitford, Bruce Greenwood, Matthew Rhys, Alison Brie
Screenplay : Liz Hannah, Josh Singer
Image : Janusz Kaminski
Sound : Brian Chumney, Richard Hymns
Editing : Sarah Broshar, Michael Kahn
Music : John Williams

Production : Twentieth Century Fox, DreamWorks, Reliance Entertainment
Distribution: Universal

The Post continued Steven Spielberg's journey into history, which began seven years earlier with War Horse. Before the Watergate affair, the Pentagon Papers were top secret files which were published in the early 1970s and which undermined public support for American intervention in Vietnam. For Spielberg “(...) filming the press often means giving substance to the idea of democracy through the workings of one of its pillars” (Murielle Joudet; Le Monde). Although Tom Hanks is a regular in Spielberg's films, this is the first time that he has worked with Meryl Streep.