Perspectives
The latest in Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European cinema.

Juris Kursietis’ Modris (2015)

Vol. 61 (January 2016) by Konstanty Kuzma
Can we care about a story whose protagonist does not? Juris Kursietis' debut feature strains our sympathetic powers.

Giedre Zickyte’s Master and Tatyana (Meistras Ir Tatjana, 2015)

Vol. 61 (January 2016) by Moritz Pfeifer
This info-doc about the life and work of Lithuanian photographer king Vitas Luckus misses out on the contemporary relevance of its subject-matter...

Jaan Toomik’s Landscape with Many Moons (Maastik mitme kuuga, 2014)

Vol. 61 (January 2016) by Moritz Pfeifer
Nonsensical and surreal on the outside, Jan Toomik's film is in truth about an age-old conflict of human existence.

Otar Iosseliani’s Winter Song (Chant d’hiver, 2015)

Vol. 60 (December 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer saw Winter Song, Otar Iosseliani’s attempt to reanimate his trademark comedic style.

Adaptation and Other Demons

Vol. 60 (December 2015) by Aka Morchiladze
Georgian writer, historian and screenwriter Aka Morchiladze examines the phenomenon of literary adaptations in the Soviet Union, and in Georgia in particular.

Imam Hasanov’s Holy Cow (2015) and Salome Machaidze’s, David Meskhi’s and Tamuna Karumidze’s When the Earth Seems to Be Light (2015)

Vol. 60 (December 2015) by Konstanty Kuzma
Deeply skeptical of tradition, these two Caucasian documentaries look towards Europe for salvation.

Andrzej Żuławski’s Cosmos (2015)

Vol. 60 (December 2015) by Colette de Castro
Andrzej Żuławski’s film is more reminiscent of his son Xawery’s exuberant style than of the Gombrowicz novel it is allegedly based on.

Jacek Petrycki’s My Notes from the Underground (Moje zapiski z podziemia, 2011)

Vol. 59 (November 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Moritz Pfeifer saw Jacek Petrycki's archival documentary about Polish underground resistance during martial law.

Dalibor Matanić’s The High Sun (Zvizdan, 2015)

Vol. 59 (November 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Unlike his postmodern peers, Dalibor Matanić embraces the emotional burden of the Balkan wars in his Cannes-selected feature.

Alexander Sokurov’s Francofonia (2015)

Vol. 59 (November 2015) by Moritz Pfeifer
Alexander Sokurov gets tangled up in delusional idealizations of art in his meditation on the Louvre.
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