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[Donbass] is an angry film casting a light on 'Europe's forgotten war' - a war with more than 10,000 casualties so far. April 29, 2019
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In Donbas, war is …
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[Stretches] the most ridiculous aspects of each scene until exhaustion. Jared Leto to star in There's a clear argument in Donbass about the corrupting power of misinformation and propaganda that could not be more timely. | Rating: 4/5 That intellectual, minimalist rigor has been bracing in his previous work, both the documentaries (Featuring an ensemble cast but following no single protagonist, the story is constructed like a daisy chain of interconnected scenes, or alternatively like an ouroboros (snake that eats itself) that ends, sort of, where it begins.
| Jamie Havlin looks at an award winning film that examines the current conflict in Ukraine.
April 15, 2019
Please click the link below to receive your verification email. Don’t worry, it won’t take long. Some speak Russian with more markedly Russian accents (as opposed to Ukrainian-Russian accents) than others. May 10, 2018 In the eastern region of Donbass, a hybrid war blends open armed conflict, crimes and looting perpetrated by separatist gangs. As with “A Gentle Creature,” the connecting ties between people have been worn away, ravaged by selfishness or sheer exhaustion. [Full review in Spanish] |
With this compulsively mesmerising film, Loznitsa has tapped into his nation's beleaguered soul in a way that's immediately recognisable in the global post-truth era. | Rating: 3/5 Long may he reign. Loznitsa adeptly evokes the unpredictability of war, with blasts and bombs going off suddenly in the middle of a scene, wiping out the characters suddenly to make way for the next scene.
The Ukrainian forces are less visible, apart from one hapless captive (Valery Antoniuk) that a crowd of locals, head-scarfed grannies included, lynch when soldiers march him out to a nearby bus stop with a handwritten sign taped to his clothes claiming he's a member of a Ukrainian execution squad.However, be they soldiers or civilians, thugs or innocents, everyone is a possible target and potential casualty. Donbass Film Review. Your Ticket Confirmation # is located under the header in your email that reads "Your Ticket Reservation Details". Expertly eliding the episodes, while reinforcing their recurring relevance, Loznitsa makes his despair and fury readily apparent. There’s a danger that Loznitsa’s cries of inhumanity will be dismissed as repetitive, yet isn’t that always the case with prophets?In each scene, Oleg Mutu’s supple camera acts as a silent, inquisitive historian recording every new offense, for capturing it all visually is the only means of ensuring that some truth survives. Boris isn’t immune to ill-treatment when he tries to get through a roadside checkpoint, just like a busload of passengers whose inner dialogues about the homes they’re returning to in the conflict zone offer a glimpse at the constant uncertainty plaguing the battered population.As they pass into the Donetsk region, German journalist Michael Walter (uncredited) and his translator are taunted by soldiers, several of whom clearly are non-local Russians pretending to be from the area. © Copyright 2020 Variety Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Business Media, LLC.
It's an impressive film, in both the cleverness of its staging and the depth of its sourness, but it drags a bit. | May 3, 2019
Checkpoint strip-down: war as a series of everyday humiliations in 'Donbass' Sergei Loznitsa’s film Donbass rejects a linear recounting of the events leading up to the tensions in eastern Ukraine – instead the film is composed of a series of vignettes.