A former war female pilot Nadezhda Petrukhina (Mayya Bulgakova) works as a schoolteacher in a provincial town where she is growing more and more dissatisfied with her fate which does not spare her reasons to moon around. Not only is she unable to persuade her daughter Tanya (Zhanna Bolotova) that […]
Daily Archives: December 22, 2013
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Working on a review of a western, The Great Northfield Minnesota Raid, that was influenced by this movie (or at least its way of storytelling), I thought it was a good idea to have a look Arthur Penn‘s classic Bonnie and Clyde too. A new version of the exploits of […]
Ever since his directorial debut in 1994, David O. Russell is a filmmaker that continues to surprise critics and audiences with the wide range of films that he produces. He’s done indie comedies (Spanking the Monkey, I Heart Huckabees), mainstream comedies (Flirting with Disaster), war thrillers (Three Kings), political comedies […]