Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘Rita’s Last Fairy Tale’ review
★★☆☆☆ Rita’s Last Fairy Tale (Poslednyaya Skazka Rity, 2011) is a playful Russian fantasy which imbues its harrowing tale of life and death with an […]
Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘Kokoko’ review
★★★☆☆ Dunya Smirnova’s Kokoko (2012) plays out very much like a buoyant Mike Leigh film about social class and feminism – albeit with a deeply […]
Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘The Conductor’ review
★★★☆☆ From Pavel Lungin, the acclaimed director of Tsar (2009) and The Island (2007), comes The Conductor (Dirizhyor, 2012), a beautifully rendered orchestra of existential […]
Russian Film Festival 2012: ‘I’ll Be Around’ review
★★★★☆ Pavel Ruminov’s I’ll Be Around (Ya Budu Ryadom, 2012) makes its way to the 6th London Russian Film Festival after winning the Grand Prix […]
BFI Uncut Season: ‘The Evil Dead’ review
★★★★☆ Notorious is a word frequently overused when describing controversial horror films. However, the term somehow feels completely justifiable in relation to The Evil Dead […]