Somebody finances his movies which are pricy and not cash earners indeed.
I agree they are arty but don’t like overall.
That and Leviathan are nothing but a revival of late 1980s dark ‘chernukha’ genre.
I don’t want to go to a cinema and spend money to look into government corruption and family problems presented in a way to blame me as part of society for some evils. Also both movies has sinsible anti-Christian massage betraying it as a depressive leftist propaganda.
New York Times on the other hand seems to love Zvyagintsev work a lot.
I suspect for their propaganda ‘Leviathan’ and ‘Loveless’ are a kind of that ‘Grapes of Wrath’ were for Pravda in USSR.
Agreed. I even liked government-approved “Stalingrad” by Bondarchuk better than “Leviathan” or “Loveless” (just saw it)...and Elena was also in the same vein. Haven’t seen “The Return”...
My favorite Russian film is “Andrei Rublev” by Tarkovsky.
Have you seen....VIKING? :)