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Beanpole (2019) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: Beanpole (2019)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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November 8, 2019

“For a long time after the war I was afraid of the sky, even of raising my head towards the sky. I was afraid of seeing plowed-up earth. But the rooks already walked calmly over it. The birds quickly forgot the war” — Svetlana Alexievich, “The Unwomanly Face of War” During World War II, the…

Loveless (2017) by The Critical Movie Critics

Movie Review: Loveless (2017)

Howard Schumann
Movie Reviews
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October 10, 2017

Whether or not it is designed as an allegory of modern Russia, no film in recent memory has examined the growing emptiness of human relationships with such expressive force as Andrey Zvyagintsev’s (“Leviathan”) Loveless, a heart wrenching drama about a couple on the brink of divorce whose emotional neglect of their son leads to devastating…

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