Filled with the violence and Orwellian unreality ruling eastern Ukraine, Sergei Loznitsa’s feverish procession of scenes is handled with steely control “What was that flying circus all about?” says one of the many dead-eyed, cynical functionaries in Sergei Loznitsa’s macabre new social-realist portmanteau movie about the civil war in eastern Ukraine; the film is set in the Donbass region. The echo of Monty Python is maybe deliberate. This man had just received a deputation from a devotional group wishing for cash for the public veneration of a certain icon, part of the religious nationalism that is fuelling the split between …read more
Source: The Guardian
