Closeness Review Hollywood Reporter. A mix of rigid religious traditions and grim political realities takes a toxic personal toll in Closeness, a vivid and depressing snapshot of dire lives in a dismal backwater of the crumbled Soviet empire two decades ago. Held together by a riveting central performance by Darya Zhovner, this first feature by Kantemir Balagov, which won the FIPRESCI Award in the Cannes Film Festivals Un Certain Regard sidebar, possesses an erratic power and will be a welcome presence on the festival scene. But persuading paying audiences to submit to the dramas all encompassing miserablism, which includes the jarring presence of an actual snuff video, would run contrary to the laws of nature. With living conditions in the squalid town of Nalchik, the North Caucasus, in 1. Flint, Michigan, look like Beverly Hills, the only aspect of life that would seem to provide a lifeline of reassurance and continuity are the Jewish values adhered to by a small religious population there. But these are not of primary importance to Ilana Zhovner, a stunning tomboy in her mid 2. Zalim Nazir Zhukov, whos not Jewish. With the cramped lives and constricting conditions continually emphasized by the boxy 4 3 aspect ratio of Artem Emelyanovs hand held cinematography, the story goes from bad to worse when Ilanas beloved brother David Veniamin Katz theres a weirdly pronounced sexual vibe between the two and his new fiancee are kidnapped, with a high ransom demanded, which the family cant begin to cover. This brings the local Jewish community together up to a point, but more coin will be needed, and soon. For the most part, the focus remains on Ilana, whose impulses are as wild as her personal and religious fidelity are tenuous. Her pious mother Olga Dragunova drives her nuts with her timid, subservient manner, and Ilana is pushed to the brink when it seems that the only way to secure the ransom money is for her to submit to arranged marriage with a wealthy Jewish familys milquetoasty kid, which would be a disaster by any measure. The films tense mid section has Ilana bouncing among booze and drug fueled moods and reckless behaviors like an errant pinball. This long nocturnal sequence climaxes with some wasted guys in a bar watching a video consisting of actual footage taken during the 1. Dagestan massacre of Chechens torturing and cutting the throats of Russian soldiers, material that shortly ended up online. This scene unsurprisingly prompted some angry walkouts in Cannes, and it should be stressed that Balagov crosses a line here that virtually all filmmakers, no matter how provocative in this most wide open era, have rightly observed No one should be caught off guard and forced, unawares, to watch actual killings in a snuff film designed by its makers to scare the enemy into submission. At the very least, a warning should be added to the beginning of the film as to what lies in store, or else a few seconds could be cut to spare the sight of whats implicit anyway. Closeness, the original title of which, Tesnota, also apparently implies being walled in or suffocated, is dramatically erratic, with tense and compelling sequences alternating with diffuse andor flat interludes that dont advance the narrative or pay off in other ways. This is especially true in the late going, when Ilanas rebellious nature appears to have been spent or temporarily curbed its hard to know which. What is not in question, however, is the molten talent of Darya Zhovner. Versailles Season 1 Episode 1 Recap. A dark haired beauty, shes an arresting presence from the initial scene, in which she wears her preferred overalls while helping her dad fix a car. From there on, shes the automatic center of every scene shes in even as Ilana likes and gets along with her father, brother and boyfriend, it would seem that portraying a rebellious nature is what comes most naturally to Zhovner, who shuttles and snaps among moods and emotions like a hummingbird. This is a list of banned films. For nearly the entire history of film production, certain films have been banned by film censorship or review organizations for. En pahal yapmlar enflasyon dzeltilmesi yaplmam Bu listede 150. Amerikan dolar nominal deeri zerinde bir bte ile yaplan yapmlar. Hitcounter Contact Email APSATTV. COM does not support the hacking of PAY TV. For listing in CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER For listing in ALPHABETICAL ORDER For listings of SHORT MARS FILMS For listings of MARS DOCUMENTARY FILMS For Mars Movies of the. If she speaks other languages, she looks poised for a significant career in international films. Production companies Example of Intonation Alexander Sokurovs Fund, Lenfilm Studios. Cast Darya Zhovner, Olga Draganova, Veniamin Kats, Artem Tsypin, Nazir Zhukov. Director Kantemir Balagov. Its Saturday. Yay Terra Cognita. Scientology Cant Promote Scientology Using Scientology Anymore. Besides the obvious, what do all these groups have in common Name Lucas Email Date 101517. Dear Josh The other day, after I pointed out that Harvey Weinsteins. Kantemir Balagovs film Closeness, which premiered at Cannes, portrays a small Jewish community in the North Caucasus in the late 1990s. Screenwriters Kantemir Balagov, Anton Yarush. Director of photography Artem Emelyanov. Production designer Alexey Paderin. Editor Kantemir Balagov. 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