Winner of the Grand Prix, Cannes’ second-most prestigious prize, Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur” brings a new perspective to the Russo-Ukrainian War. Set in Russia in 2022, as Russians flee across the ...
“Minotaur,” a pitch-black look at corruption in Putin era Russia, was greeted with a thunderous, eight-minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival on Tuesday. The film marks the return to the ...
Nine years away haven't dimmed the Russian master's powers in this pristine reworking of Claude Chabrol's 'La femme infidèle,' cleverly adapted to his warring homeland's current rhetoric of patriarchy ...
Cannes film festival: The great Russian director’s first film for almost a decade is tremendous drama following the ill-deeds of a mini-oligarch who comes up with a toxic new way to feed Russia’s war ...
We've seen this story before, and we know where it's going, but the "Loveless" and "Leviathan" director repositions the cliches of adultery thrillers into his own gloomy register to engrossing, icily ...
Minotaur, which marks the first film from acclaimed Russian auteur Andrey Zvyagintsev in the best part of a decade, received a heartfelt 10-minute standing ovation after its Cannes Film Festival world ...
There’s a stillness that pervades Andrey Zvyagintsev’s “Minotaur,” which had its world premiere in Competition at Cannes. Adapted from Claude Chabrol’s 1969 French film, “The Unfaithful Wife,” the ...
Nine years since his last film, several of them spent slowly recovering in Germany from a bout of Covid that all but extinguished his lungs, Andrey Zvyagintsev, the greatest of all the living Russian ...
Exiled Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev returns to Cannes Competition with a steely and immaculately composed remake of Claude Chabrol’s 1969 classic The Unfaithful Wife, about a man who correctly ...
"Gleb, a successful company director, finds himself under siege from mounting corporate pressures and an increasingly unstable world" in the Russian auteur's new competition film. By Georg Szalai ...
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The Apple TV series leans into the natural splendor of its wild, rustic setting, with a painterliness that recalls Celtic and medieval traditions. By Connie Chang Given his acne, nightmares and surges ...