LovelessDirected by Andrey ZvyagintsevSony Pictures Classics (2017), 128 minutes
Leo Tolstoy famously opened Anna Karenina with the aphorism that all happy families are alike, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. To judge by his latest film, Andrey Zvyagintsev would beg to differ: In Loveless, the latest Oscar-nominated import from the Russian auteur, every unhappy family is alike, while happy families are nowhere to be seen at all. That bleak assessment of modern-day Russia lies at the heart of Zvyagintsev’s stark, often powerful vision in Loveless—yet it is also the source of the film’s shortcomings.No one familiar with …read more
Source: The American Interest
