Front, Lear and grave

Today, December 6, in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg, the next “Artdokfest” begins -a documentary cinema festival in Russian. In the program, generally dedicated to the phenomenon of the post -Soviet (that is, actually the elements of the Soviet, continuing its existence after the collapse of the USSR), there are many imaginary hits. Kurov’s famous long -building Askold about Oleg Sentsov (interested Russian viewers during this time have already thoroughly learned the circumstances of Keis Sentsov on numerous publications in the press, but this movie is designed for the agitation of the Western audience and, of course, important for the release of the Ukrainian director from the Russian prison). The egregious dock of “rain” about Tikhon Shevkunov, who is whimpering according to the worst recipes of Russian state propaganda (the sympathies of any sensible person will be on the side of the bishop - more about the picture can be read here ). Infinite, like James Benning's films, “Andrey Zvyagintsev. Director ”-promotion of the company Alexander Rodnyansky non-Stop Production, fixing the heavy everyday life of the“ non-love ”filming group (Zvyagintsev himself here looks frantic and pretty selfdidact, ten times launching a plastic bag in front of the camera and enthusiastically discovering for themselves-and the line knows what year the Kulesov effect is“ Kulesov’s effect ”; the rest Time takes endless duplicate). Finally, the film about the deceased Ekaterina Golubeva, the star of the nervous European arthouse (Dumon, Carax, Bartas; the last two were her husbands) were amazing in its eclecticism and meaninglessness. The creators of the film actively use italics and frames of burning logs, voiced the “Paul X” radio interview with Guillaume Depardieu and Leos Karax (the sound seems to come from the radio in the heroine’s car, the find of the director!), Or even Dostoevsky. In one of the very first episodes, Sharunas Bartas tears off his buttonhole and leaves the frame, saying that he does not want to participate in this; We understand.

And now that it is really worth looking at the festival.