‘Dau’ Review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Vast Cinematic Experiment in Historical World-Building Remains More Impressive From a Distance
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‘Dau’ Review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s Vast Cinematic Experiment in Historical World-Building Remains More Impressive From a Distance
More than six years after Ilya Khrzhanovsky premiered “DAU. Natasha” and “DAU. Degeneration” at the Berlin Film Festival — right before the global COVID lockdown — to a politely muted reception and limited distributor interest, you might think the moment has passed for another missive from the DAU Cinematic Universe. Turns out, however, that you […]
Ilya Khrzhanovsky's film, the result of a twenty-year experiment, is a visual experience like few others in the history of cinema, as it manages to drag the viewer into another space-time — a teeming Russia, from 1928 to 1968 —, even if it then gets bogged down in a long second part that is excessively static and dark
At the "Days of the Authors" the presentation of the film "The craft" directed by Beppe Tufarulo, protagonist Luigi Lo Cascio
Throughout four decades of the history of the USSR, the film traces the history of scientist Lev Landau. Despite some striking sequences, the ensemble is wrecked.
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Darkness Visible: Khrzhanovsky Reformulates Saga of Shattered Scientists If ex-Attorney General and fascist sentinel Pam Bondi was ever credited as uttering anything worth repeating, it was her childish ‘emperor’s new clothes’ technique testifying before congress in her doltish redirect from exposing pedophiles to trumpeting the virility of the US economy. “That’s what we should be talking about!,” she hysterically screamed, like a Puritan witne…
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