Donbass is a region in Eastern Ukraine that’s occupied by various criminal gangs, the Ukrainian regular army, supported by volunteers, and separatist gangs, supported by Russian troops. In "Donbass," the film, the events that are richly-depicted by Ukraine-born Sergei Loznitsa (“Maidan,” “Austerlitz,” “My joy”) in stunningly-realistic fashion bring the point across, with great clarity, that this ... more >
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CANNES FESTIVAL (DAY TWO) The horrors of war writ large in DONBASS
Film was shown as part of the Un Certain Regard program
Valeriu Andriuta, Thorsten Merten, and Boris Kamorzin
Directed by Sergei Loznitsa
CANNES – ISABELLA ROSSELLINI TO HEAD U.C.R. JURY
Although Isabella Rossellini is less known stateside than in Europe the pedigreed doyenne of the moving pictures is bona fide cinema royalty. Her father is filmmaker Roberto Rossellini and her mother, Ingrid Bergman. Oh, she was married to a certain Martin Scorsese in the late seventies and later dated David Lynch. Naming her head of the jury of the Un Certain Regard (U.C.R.) program at this ... more >