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    3/4

    Dec 26, 2017 4 minutes
    BY JORDAN CRONK

    A modest work of considerable grace and insight, Ilian Metev’s quietly stands as one of the most accomplished narrative debuts of the year. Genuinely compassionate, the 36-year-old Bulgarian’s directorial voice echoes forth confidently from the opening frames of this most understated of family dramas. Following the Semaine de la Critique feted documentary (2012), Metev’s first narrative feature—winner of the Filmmakers of the Present prize at this summer’s Locarno Festival—begins with a deceptively intricate passage that simultaneously sets forth the film’s distinct formal strategy and its suggestive way with narrative. Through a series of slowly retreating, slightly offset, and downwardly tilted tracking shots, a peculiar schoolyard scenario swiftly takes shape: legs and feet jut out from

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