CRITICISM – Crowned with the Un certain regard prize at the last Cannes festival, the second film by this 32-year-old director paints the portrait of a wounded young woman in search of freedom in a harsh and disturbing Russia. At 32, this tall, flamboyant red-haired Russian has energy to spare. Born in the Caucasus, in […]
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Jean-Christophe Buisson: “Hello Ossetian sadness”
CHRONICLE – What do Caucasian girls dream about? A beautiful film, harsh, powerful, disturbing. A small mining town in North Ossetia. The sky is grey, Ada’s mood too. In the patriarchal societies of this region of the Russian Caucasus, the life of a young girl is not a cakewalk. Especially when you live under the […]