Loveless (2017)
(Nelyubov)
Country: RUS/FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Synopsis:
A neglected boy overhears his separating parents arguing over who draws the short straw of keeping him, and runs away from home. Or does he? A painstaking search yields no fruit and the couple take up with their new partners, indifference turned to exasperation, exasperation to guilt.
Review:
Like Ceylan, Zvyagintsev makes films around estranged couples and dysfunctional family units, formal precision counterpointing their minimal narrative arcs. Here we end and begin like an Antonioni film, though the characters are far more loquacious, lacerating each other with their own impotent rage. The sense of a divided country is palpable, with some following their own egocentric trajectory and others sacrificing hours of their lives to unpaid civic duty.
(Nelyubov)
Country: RUS/FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Synopsis:
A neglected boy overhears his separating parents arguing over who draws the short straw of keeping him, and runs away from home. Or does he? A painstaking search yields no fruit and the couple take up with their new partners, indifference turned to exasperation, exasperation to guilt.
Review:
Like Ceylan, Zvyagintsev makes films around estranged couples and dysfunctional family units, formal precision counterpointing their minimal narrative arcs. Here we end and begin like an Antonioni film, though the characters are far more loquacious, lacerating each other with their own impotent rage. The sense of a divided country is palpable, with some following their own egocentric trajectory and others sacrificing hours of their lives to unpaid civic duty.
(Nelyubov)
Country: RUS/FR/GER/BEL
Technical: col/2.35:1 127m
Director: Andrey Zvyagintsev
Cast: Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Matvey Novikov
Synopsis:
A neglected boy overhears his separating parents arguing over who draws the short straw of keeping him, and runs away from home. Or does he? A painstaking search yields no fruit and the couple take up with their new partners, indifference turned to exasperation, exasperation to guilt.
Review:
Like Ceylan, Zvyagintsev makes films around estranged couples and dysfunctional family units, formal precision counterpointing their minimal narrative arcs. Here we end and begin like an Antonioni film, though the characters are far more loquacious, lacerating each other with their own impotent rage. The sense of a divided country is palpable, with some following their own egocentric trajectory and others sacrificing hours of their lives to unpaid civic duty.