'Minotaur,' About Murder and Corruption in Putin's Russia, Jolts the Cannes Film Festival
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'Minotaur,' about murder and corruption in Putin's Russia, jolts the Cannes Film Festival
Iris Lebedeva, front, director Andrey Zvyagintsev, from left, Dmitriy Mazurov, Yuriy Zavalnyouk, fourth from left and Varvara Shmykova pose for photographers upon arrival at the premiere of the film ‘Minotaur’ at the 79th international film festival, Cannes, southern France, Tuesday, May 19, 2026. (AP Photo/John Locher)Yuriy Zavalnyouk, left, Iris Lebedeva, third from left, Dmitriy Mazurov, director Andrey Zvyagintsev and Varvara Shmykova pose f…
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A director at the stage of surgery, Russian filmmaker Andrei Zviaguintsev was inspired by Claude Chabrol's "La Femme infidele" to shoot in exile "Minotaure", in which a family drama resonates with the war in UkraineRecovering Andrei Zviaguintsev in competition in Cannes, nine years after the presentation of Fault of Love, has something miraculous. The Russian director has indeed been the victim of a long form of the covid that could definitely h…
With Minotaur, Andrey Zvyagintsev presents at the Cannes Film Festival a film depicting Russian society and its relationship to the war in Ukraine. Interview.
Sydsvenskan meets the director who is making a comeback after being seriously ill with Covid.
It is as a political exile that Russian filmmaker Andrei Zviaguintsev came to present his last film in competition. Free adaptation of Claude Chabrol's Unfaithful Woman (1969), Minotaur takes on a political hue with the invasion of war in Ukraine which serves as a backdrop to his story. In the context of a domestic conflict overwhelmed by adultery, the filmmaker leaves the metaphor of resilience to denounce the mechanics of war. Socio-Conjugal C…
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