Inspired by Svetlana Alexievich’s “The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II”, Beanpole (Дылда) offers a rare, intense post-War drama from women’s perspective, examining the tribulation…
Tag: Russia
Andrei Tarkovsky is a sculptor of time. He understands time as a philosophical concept and not just a calculative entity limited to the hands of the clock. Time has little scientific understanding…
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,…
Arrhythmia [2017]: ‘TIFF’ Review Taking place in contemporary Russia, director Boris Khlebnikov’s latest film might sound like a medical thriller from it abnormally beating title. But at its core is a marriage…
Suleiman Mountain [2017]: ‘TIFF’ Review More than anything, Elizaveta Stishova’s debut feature “Suleiman Mountain” screeches at the vulnerability of human beings. The vulnerability that often tends them towards lies as they crave for a…
Leviathan is a monster whale like creature described in ‘The book of Job’ which can not be controlled by humans. It symbolizes the presence of anti-GOD forces, where the dominance of human…
