Sunday 12 June 2016

Khrustalyov, mashinu! / Khrustalyov, Get the Car! (1998 Aleksey German)

If you were to cocktail Faraldo's Themroc, Jeunet's Delicatessen, the dream sequences from  and Kusturica's Underground you'd begin to get an idea what this remarkable and extremely strange film is like. It's strikingly photographed by Vladmimir Ilin (in black and white 4x3) and features many long and complicated tracking shots.

Yuriy Tsurilo makes an impression as the Colonel. A disturbing film, particularly in unpleasant second part - it could send you slightly mad. I had no idea what was going on, really, and couldn't finish it.

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