Counter culture
Aug 08, 2018
4 minutes
Reviews by Kate Duncan, Ally McManus and Chris Stafford
Screens
LOVELESS
Directed by ANDREY ZVYAGINTSEV
Starring MARYANA SPIVAK, ALEXEY ROZIN
BREATH
Directed by SIMON BAKER
Starring SIMON BAKER, ELIZABETH
DEBICKI, SAMSON COULTER, BEN SPENCE
A trenchant critic of Putin’s Russia, director Andrey Zvyagintsev pulls no punches in Loveless, the gripping story of a child who has fallen through the cracks in a broken marriage. The year is 2012 and, while the radio prattles on about the Mayan apocalypse and the TV runs pictures of war and misery in the Ukraine, Zvyagintsev’s bourgeois Muscovites post selfies in fancy restaurants.
Two of them — Boris, a
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