Loveless

Indeed, once you lever open the story’s allegorical potential the underlying fury spills out everywhere: Zhenya is a woman who scorned and neglected her child to the point of complete abandonment and only started to want him back (abstractly, and without real feeling) when he was gone.

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Andrey Zvyagintsev's stark tale of a divorcing couple is a missing- child procedural that meditates on the corruption of Russia.

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Russian writer-director Andrey Zvyagintsev ('Leviathan') returns to Cannes with a tense drama about the search for a missing child.

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With its fastidious framing and angry-tough temperament, Loveless...earns its air of careful foreboding.

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“Leviathan” director Andrey Zvyagintsev’s elegantly bleak domestic drama examines the aftereffects of a bitter marriage

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Why is it, then, that Loveless, which has been nominated for Best Foreign Film at this year’s Academy Awards, should be so much more gripping than grim? One reason is that, for all the deadened souls who throng the tale, the telling could not be more alive.

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Oscar-nominated movie ‘Loveless’ is a grim, pitiless gaze at present-day Russia

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The way Zvyagintsev portrays this world is cold and clinical, just as its people are isolated in self-absorption.

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One feels in the punishing bleakness of director Andrey Zvyagintsev's Loveless a yearning for transcendence.

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Cannes winner Loveless is a bracing reminder that things aren’t going great in Russia either

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Contemporary Russia: a divorcing couple fail to reconcile after their son goes missing. As the search fails to deliver results, and they move on to new lives with new partners, a portrait of an entire society in crisis emerges.

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The bitter taste left by this realization has no parallel in the work of Bergman or Antonioni, neither of whom peddled such haughty, facile, and ultimately futile didacticism.

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