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Radu Jude’s Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World (Nu aștepta prea mult de la sfârșitul lumii, 2023)

Vol. 139 (November 2023) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Radu Jude's latest film is a clash of political systems, historical epochs, and cinematic styles.
Essay

The role of montage in Radu Jude’s The Exit of the Trains (Ieşirea trenurilor din gară, 2020)

Vol. 112 (February 2021) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
This film examines and questions how we can document and remember the atrocities of the Iași pogroms.
Review

Valentyn Vasyanovych’s Atlantis (2019)

Vol. 102 (February 2020) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Valentyn Vasyanovych's outlook on future life in Ukraine is dominated by static tableaux, and pessimism.
Review

Adilkhan Yerzhanov’s A Dark-Dark Man (2019)

Vol. 102 (February 2020) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Kazakh filmmaker Adilkhan Yerzhanov's latest film conveys an impression of stylistic undecidedness.
Review

Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov’s The Man Who Surprised Everyone (Tchelovek Kotorij Udivil Vseh, 2018)

Vol. 98 (October 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In their second feature, Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov approach issues surrounding gender politics and sexual norms through a local folk-tale.
Review

Juris Kursietis’ Oleg (Oļeg, 2019)

Vol. 97 (September 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Is our culture of awareness conducive to our forgetting where the problems lie?
Review

Corneliu Porumboiu’s The Whistlers (La Gomera, 2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
Corneliu Porumboiu's latest stint is a critical wake-up call for Europe's rusty film bureaucracy.
Review

Kantemir Balagov’s Beanpole (2019)

Vol. 95 (May 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In steering clear from depicting graphic violence in a WWII drama, Russian director Kantemir Balagov keeps his promise to his mentor Alexander Sokurov - almost.
Review

Filip Remunda’s The Okamura Brothers (Český žurnál: Bratři Okamurovi, 2019)

Vol. 94 (April 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
This creative documentary portrays three brothers from Czechia's public sphere.
Review

Ondřej Šálek’s Good News (Dobré zprávy, 2019)

Vol. 94 (April 2019) by Anastasia Eleftheriou
In searching for the human face of a rightwing conspiracy theorist, this documentary risks contributing to the normalization of extremist views.
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