This is the Pure Movies review of A Gentle Creature, directed by Sergei Loznitsa, and starring Vasilina Makovtseva, Liya Akhedzhakova, Valeriu Andriutã and Boris Kamorzin. It’s difficult to write about A Gentle Creature. This is partly by design, of course, with writer/director Sergei Loznitsa refashioning a Dostoyevsky short story into a sprawling, elusive, beguiling epic. What quickly becomes apparent during Loznitsa’s two-and-a-half-hour opus is that it’s a film of ravishing ambition, mounting a complex allegory for life in modern Russia that confounds narrative sense at every turn. In its place is an intricate framework of signs and signifiers, vignettes of dreamlike absurdity that flow with hazy indifference towards somewhere, well, let’s just say ‘bleak’.
- 5/7/2018
- by Joshua Glenn
- Pure Movies
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Vasilina Makovtseva stars in this...
Truth or Dare [my review]
Lucy Hale, Violett Beane, and Sophia Taylor Ali costar in this horror movie about a college drinking game that goes wrong. Cowritten by Jillian Jacobs. (male director)
Rampage [my review]
Naomie Harris, Malin Akerman, and Marley Shelton costar in this sci-fi action movie about genetically engineered monsters. (male writers and director)
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Valeska Grisebach writes and directs this German drama about (male) construction workers.
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Mouly Surya cowrites and directs this Indonesian dramatic thriller about a woman (Marsha Timothy) who takes revenge against a gang that attacks her.
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Juhi Chaturvedi writes this Indian romance, costarring Banita Sandhu. (male director)
A Gentle Creature [IMDb] pictured
Vasilina Makovtseva stars in this...
- 4/13/2018
- by MaryAnn Johanson
- www.flickfilosopher.com
Often a film filled with overwhelming drudgery can be cured of its sickening length by re-writes or skilled editing. One of the greatest aspects of the filmmaking process is the drive, from everyone involved, to refine and improve the product. But this appears to be absent from A Gentle Creature, the second dip into fiction-filmmaking from documentarian Sergei Loznitsa.
The film follows an unnamed Russian woman (Vasilina Makovtseva), whose husband is locked up in a Siberian jail for reasons never made entirely clear. She sends a care package to him, which is promptly sent back without explanation. Thus begins her stretched odyssey into the bureaucratic alleyways of a weird Russian society, deeply listening to other people’s harrowing experiences and plunging into strange and troubling nightmares – all to deliver the package, and to maybe even see her husband.
The film starts in the slow, picturesque manner that many great Russian...
The film follows an unnamed Russian woman (Vasilina Makovtseva), whose husband is locked up in a Siberian jail for reasons never made entirely clear. She sends a care package to him, which is promptly sent back without explanation. Thus begins her stretched odyssey into the bureaucratic alleyways of a weird Russian society, deeply listening to other people’s harrowing experiences and plunging into strange and troubling nightmares – all to deliver the package, and to maybe even see her husband.
The film starts in the slow, picturesque manner that many great Russian...
- 3/29/2018
- by Euan Franklin
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Every year, new films premiere at festivals around the world with the hopes of obtaining distribution so they can be seen by general audiences. Of course, not every film ends up with that fate: some don’t get accepted to festivals, others screen at smaller festivals with less publicity, and even the ones that do end up premiering at a major fest aren’t guaranteed a deal. This results in great films falling through the cracks, ignored and/or forgotten because of their perceived profitability rather than their quality.
Here are ten films from 2017 that (to the best of my knowledge) have yet to find a Us distributor, films that will hopefully get the chance to be viewed by general audiences sooner rather than later, if at all.
Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)
Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White is a film about women, or more specifically the way women...
Here are ten films from 2017 that (to the best of my knowledge) have yet to find a Us distributor, films that will hopefully get the chance to be viewed by general audiences sooner rather than later, if at all.
Angels Wear White (Vivian Qu)
Vivian Qu’s Angels Wear White is a film about women, or more specifically the way women...
- 12/31/2017
- by The Film Stage
- The Film Stage
This year’s New York Film Festival has just unveiled a slew of Special Events to round out its already full-to-bursting lineup, and it includes some late-breaking entries to previously announced sections and a selection of brand new events that are very special indeed. Highlights include a trio of documentary premieres, including Susan Lacy’s “Spielberg” (focused on the eponymous director, with both Lacy and her subject set to appear at the festival), along with Jennifer Lebeau’s Bob Dylan concert film “Trouble No More,” and Susan Froemke’s “The Opera House,” a history of the Metropolitan Opera and a love letter to the art form that will (appropriately enough) screen at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center.
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
Other standouts include four brand-new films from Claude Lanzmann, a sparkling new restoration of G.W. Pabst’s “Pandora’s Box.” Elsewhere, Kate Winslet will be on hand for a career-spanning chat...
- 8/28/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
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