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ANGELS OF REVOLUTION

Aleksey Fedorchenko Russia, 2014
The film is like the evil twin of Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm (1931)... Angelyi revolyutsii is a simultaneously wry comedy, deadpan surrealism and genuine tragedy – the road to hell indeed is paved with good intentions.
December 25, 2015
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The contradictions of the project... soon come out into the open, but while Fedorchenko's cine-fairytale is based on true events, he does not allow considerations of historical fidelity to prevent him from engaging in his typically audacious flights of fancy, and many of the more inventive sequences in the film draw direct inspiration from the work of 1920s Russian vanguard figures such as Meyerhold, Mayakovsky and Malevich.
March 14, 2015
Though the film struggles to render its characters with verisimilitude, the director strikes a laudable balance in terms of representation, neither falling prey to demonizing Soviet expansionism nor overly romanticizing cultures untouched by progress.
March 13, 2015
As impressive as it is, Angels is convoluted, chaotic: The rewards are in the fragments. It is magical like Fedorchenko's great Silent Souls (2009), but less restrained.
January 13, 2015
Coming from Russian maverick Aleksey Fedorchenko, the words "based on actual events" form a less concrete promise than they do from most filmmakers; few have demonstrated such a remarkable facility for fabricated folklore. It's difficult, then, to pinpoint the precise dividing line between fact and fancy in "Angels of Revolution," a challengingly opaque but undeniably arresting meditation on the Kazym Rebellion of the 1930s.
October 23, 2014