A Gentle Creature

Sergei Loznitsa

IndieLisboa 2018 • Silvestre

France,Germany,Russia,Ukraine,Lithuania,Netherlands,Latvia, Ficção, 2017, 143′

Adapting the eponymous Dostoevsky’s short story, Loznitsa finds a surrealistic melodrama that is a potent political metaphor on Russia today. With this film (and Victory Day) the director continues his dismantling of the Soviet regime’s identitary ruins.

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