The Fever

 

The Fever 2004

• Director: Carlo Gabriel Nero
• Cast: Vanessa Redgrave·       
• Why? Vanessa Redgrave
• Seen: 6 November 2025      

       Some viewers hate this film (1*) because it criticises capitalism, quotes Marx and blames the rich western world for the poverty in the third world.

       That’s what’s good about it.

       Redgrave plays an unnamed woman, wealthy and cultured, who eventually sees the reality of poverty and suffering in the world when visiting an unnamed country at war.

       It’s an unusual film because much of it is narrated directly by the woman into the camera.

       It works for me. 

4 * of 5