dir. Andrey Zvyagintsev
Year. 2018
country. Russia
run-time. 129mins
rating. 15
£6.00 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 19:30 - Film 20:00
In Deptford CInema’s ‘Unseen in 2018’ strand, we bring to you the cream of the crop of those films released last year that we feel deserved a bigger audience. The chosen films come from a variety of filmmakers and genres, but all display a unique vision.
LOVELESS, widely regarded as Russian director Andrei Zvyagintsev’s new masterpiece, tells the story of a failed marriage and the subsequent disappearance of a child.
In LOVELESS, Zhenya and Boris are going through a vicious divorce marked by resentment, frustration and recriminations. Already embarking on new lives, each with a new partner, they are impatient to start again, to turn the page - even if it means threatening to abandon their 12-year-old son Alyosha. Until, after witnessing one of their fights, Alyosha disappears.
“Riveting” The Telegraph
”A Masterpiece” The Guardian
”Piercing” Sigh & Sound
”Remarkable” LA Times
In Russian with English subtitles.
“Everything here - from the image to the dialogue to the landscape to the film’s vision and judgment - is clean, cold, and bracing”
“Methodical, unsettling and icily beautiful, Loveless paints a devastating portrait of a soulless modern world...”