Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideThe protagonist in this small drama is Laversky, who allegedly is a high up civil servant but never seems to do a stroke of work and whiles his days away just gambling a moment and drinking. He’s shacked up with his rather beautiful mistress in a seaside resort but the she gets word that her husband … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideIn Andre Zvyagintsev’s rather somber movie set in modern-day Moscow its painfully clear that despite all its fine principles post Soviet Russia is simply just another society where the ‘have’ and the ‘have not’s’ bitterly resent each other. The wealthy have greatly profited from the new capitalism whilst the poor are finding it difficult to … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideAward-winning Russian director Andrey Zvagaintsev’s new epic movie opens to the dramatic tones of a Phillip Glass prelude as the camera scans over the desolate sight of a remote small fishing community that looks like it may have seen better times. It is on the Kola Peninsula in northern Russia and its almost deserted coastline … Continue reading
Author queerguruPosted on Categories 5 min movie guideFor his seventh feature film acclaimed Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov has adapted a stage play by the German writer Marius von Mayenburg that takes a hefty swipe at religious fanaticism with this tale of Veniamin (Pyotr Skvortsov) a rebellious newly-devout teenager who is literally determined to make life hell for everyone else who he thinks are sinners. … Continue reading