Andrei Zvyagintsev recently told The Guardian that ‘living in Russia is like being in a minefield’. If his latest film is any reflection of reality, then it’s safe to say that he was putting it mildly.
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Loveless
Free Fire
The 2016 BFI London Film Festival closed with Free Fire, a comic action thriller about an arms deal gone bad from acclaimed English director Ben Wheatley. Wheatley, considered by many to be among the best and boldest of British filmmaking talent, came to the project off the back of High Rise, his brilliant, divisive J.G.…
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Sieranevada
Debate Sieranevada, the latest feature from Cristi Puiu invites you into a small flat for a Romanian family gathering and barely lets you leave. If Mike Leigh were commissioned to make an extra-long, all-Romanian episode of Him and Her, this film would be the absorbing result. After a few artful, painstakingly patient scenes of set-up,…
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