4

Jason

Casually deranged and as Russian as Russian cinema gets, 4 is nonetheless absolutely its own thing. Director Khrzhanovsky (any relation to Sigizmund?) has clearly read his Bakhtin. His debut is a propulsive, carnivalesque tautology of threes and fours full of convulsive drunken chronotopes. Pretty much a must see.

Joshuah

Somewhere in the midst of Sweet Movie and Red Desert. Not for everyone's taste, but I enjoyed it thoroughly, despite the slow beginning.

Halim Cillov

This might not be a movie for everyone, but I really fell in love with the world that the director Ilia Khrzhanovsky within the film. It is a very bleak, dark and creepy world that is equally surreal, and yet still in so many different ways, it succinctly mirrors the world that we live in.

Olivia Reneé Saldívar

I wish everybody would run out, kick over a kiosk and see this movie!

SonOfRambow

I've never seen anything quite like this. It's like 2 films in 1, yet subtlety interlinked. At first it begins formalistic as if watching a tightly-written play, but then it descends into such raw, documentary-like imagery of the lower corners of Russian society. It's uncomfortably good, like Stalker, and you need patience. Khrzhanovskiy is a unique director and I'll rewatch this until I can see his upcoming DAU (!)

Alex Hall

Russia's answer to Amores Perros? The whole x number of strangers with no apparent connection coincidentally being connected gets a little dull after the first couple of films. Felt a particular section could have been edited somewhat.

Ruiz Buñuel

The "surrealism" fails on every level, and the film only succeeds at being harsh and grotesque. Kind of like HARD TO BE A GOD. Not really anything going on.

Anand Kani

Three people walked into a bar. Not a joke, but what a yarn! Old women in a village mourn the death of a young woman, their livelihood depended on her. It involved chewing bread into wet spongy paste, with their teethless gums, that she would use to make dolls. Was she one of the discarded clonal twin? (An indescribable film clearly - let's watch it as we anticipate the director's epic human experiment "Dau").