Tag: Andrey Zvyagintsev

10 Great Dysfunctional Family Films of the Decade (2010s)

In Leo Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina, the first line of Chapter one, informs the readers, ‘Happy families are all alike; every unhappy family is unhappy in its way’. The wisdom rings true with…

Best of Yesteryear: Top 10 Films of 2017

It’s that time once again this year – the Best Films of Yesteryear. To combat the often short-sightedness of Best of the Year lists, which are hopelessly released before the end of…

Loveless [2017] – A Blistering Tale of Contemporary Human Relations

  Incisive, hard-hitting, subtle and multi-layered in terms of theme and style, the Russian film-maker Andrey Zvyagintsev’s oeuvre elegantly conjures taut moral narratives of spiritual torment, hate, injustice, greed, and isolation. Since…

Loveless [2017]: ‘Mumbai Film Festival’ Review

Shuddering with the spine-chilling mystery, wrapped in unsettling tensive drama, like a thick fog slithering on a window pane, and spreading like a lovely dead tree in the hearts of heartless people,…