Tag: Russia

How to break bread in no man’s land

A microcosmic reflection on the ongoing war between Russia and the Ukraine, ‘Grey Bees’ is Beckettian in its existential crises, dark humour and give and take between the two characters, Serhiich (Viktor Zhdanov) and Pashka (Vladimir Yamnenko). They’ve known each other for decades and are utterly indifferent to one another.

Suffer the little high school children

“IF YOU WERE born in Morocco, but only lived there for two years, why do you still consider it your homeland?” This and other myriad, somewhat intrusive and philosophically complex questions put to adolescents are central to Maria Speth’s immersive documentary, Mr Bachmann and his Class, which will […]

Spin and the mechanics of evil

FILM REVIEW: INFLUENCE. AN ELDERLY WHITE man in a cardigan sits and smokes with his back to the camera, in the opening scene of Richard Poplak and Diana Neillie’s exceptionally slick piece of filmic journalism Influence. Lord Timothy Bell may look benign but with his amorality on his […]