CANNES, France — The euphoric “Leto,” shown in Cannes a few years ago (and a film everyone in the press room could agree on), “Petrov’s Flu,” in 2021, a hard-to-follow angsty dream of a movie which you might better enjoy on LSD and if you don’t do LSD then it’s OK because watching it will make you feel like you’re on it and this year in Cannes, “Tchaikovsky’s wife” (“Zhena Chaikovskogo” in the original Russian) a period piece shown from

In Moscow there’s a wall, considered one of the city’s landmarks, that's covered with drawings, tags and writings, all tributes to Russian rock star Viktor Tsoy and his band, named Kino. Tsoy (here played by a German actor named Teo Yoo who so closely resembles the real-life Tsoy that it is uncanny), created Kino together with Mike Naumenko, another figure of Moscow’s rock underground, and gave concerts in a rock club, working with