Loveless

Matt Richards

Not as powerful emotionally or formally for me as Leviafan, this one feels more in line with the distanced coldness of Elena. It's hard to find empathy with such narcissistic characters but there are some powerful moments of revelation; particularly around how disassociation lets us mask pain and hurt, forcing us act with retaliation that's often at odds with what we truly need. Fantastic credits score!! 3.5 stars

Sneerwell

It's weird that hardly anyone points out that the film is full of hope coming as a perfectly organized volunteers team.There's a deeply humanistic idea behind their impressive search routines which took a good half of the screen time.Even if we are foresaken kids living in a society ruled by indifference and cynicism, there's still a chance we could set up our own structures and transform the leviathan from within.

Yelizaveta

Well, this movie almost killed half of the auditory at the cinema. It's really painful to watch especially for me, for person who has lived in Russia for years, because of its truthfulness. We don't talk about problems like these, we're too busy to check out instagram feed. We don't develop our relationships, we just ruin them and lose the closest ones. He found a painful point again. Bravo

Henri de Corinth

TIFF 2017. Bitter variation on Scenes from a Marriage. In a way it kind of reminds me of L'avventura in how it observes the characters' response to a disappearance -which is largely informed by their bourgeois status. Suffice it to say that this is easily the darkest and most upsetting film Zvyagintsev has made. The use of Arvo Pärt's music is perfect.

Eli K

The plot is quite good. Main idea of the film was to show the bitter truth, indifference of Russian government/police service along with the horrors of families that have to go through the process of finding their lost children. Four stars for not so good acting.

Marco Pierrard

Andreï Zvyagintsev signe un drame glaçant sur un amour qui s'autodétruit et emporte dans sa chute ce qu'il avait créé. Une œuvre désespérée et sublime, à la fois bouleversante et terrifiante. Chronique complète sur Citazine : http://www.citazine.fr/article/faute-amour-violente-absence

MarcusArcus

0.25

Mihai Cristea

I haven't seen Elena yet, but this one might be his weakest so far, or maybe I just got tired of his cinematic formula.