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Also: Stories of extreme religious devotion, and a father-and-son escape run. It’s Black History Month and this week we’ve got a new film that’s sure to be a classic. It’s the first one on my list today. And for Chinese New Year, you’ve got two new choices: Jiang Zyia, which I review today, and Skyfire, which I wrote about last week and arrives on VOD today. Also note these two events . The Rendez-vous French Film Festival is on through the weekend with films from France and Quebec and (recommended to me) a toe-tapping film about Acadian music. Check for more here. ....
Posted on 17th January 2021 // Reviews // 0 Comments Ironic Stalinism is making a bit of a comeback on social media among idiots who fancy themselves to be on the left and choose to find something amusingly unconventional about celebrating a mass murderer writes Andy Stowe. The superb new Russian film Dear Comrades directed by Andrey Konchalovskiy, which is now streaming on Curzon and is being entered for this year’s Oscars, gives a flavour of what Stalinism really was and how it endures in regimes like Putin’s and Assad’s. In 1962 factory workers in the Russian city of Novocherkassk went on strike and marched peacefully into the city centre, bearing portraits of Lenin, to lobby the local government about wage cuts of one third and price rises. KGB snipers murdered twenty-six of them, their bodies were dispersed across the region in unmarked graves and everyone who witnessed the events had to swear a legal document which meant they would be executed for talking a ....
Of course, arch-conservative leanings are hardly unusual for Russian cultural figures who get exported abroad, though they are rarely recognized as such in different social climes further West. The problem is that Konchalovsky, who peaked as a director around Runaway Train in 1985, no longer displays the talent to back them up. This is how he articulates the ambitions of Dear Comrades!: It’s in black and white and Academy ratio. If it looks like an award-winning art film, then, by golly, it must be one. In fact, the first act of the film also its strongest stretch is basically a comedy. The protagonist, Lyuda (Yuliya Vysotskaya), is a fortysomething functionary in Novocherkassk, a small city with a major electric locomotive industry. Outside of stultifying Communist Party committee meetings, she is carrying on an affair with a married KGB investigator, Loginov (Vladislav Komarov). The USSR is still in the midst of the reformist Khrushchev Thaw, but the local mood i ....
Ratings info(May contain spoilers) Strong violence includes a mass shooting, with blood spurts and strong bloody images in its aftermath. There are shots of dead bodies with bloody clothing. There are also references to state-sponsored killings and sexual violence. There is strong threat as civilians are hunted down and menaced by state authorities. There is strong language ( f k ), as well as milder bad language including uses of sons of bitches , screwed , damn , moron and hell . There are mild sex references. There is occasional natural nudity. Cinema ....
★★★★☆The massacre of unarmed protestors in the Russian city of Novocherkassk in 1962 is the subject of this initially wry and seemingly satirical Russian-language drama from the award-winning director ....