Thursday, May 12, 2016

Maidan: Uprising in Ukraine (2015)

Director: Sergei Loznitsa
Run time: 127 min.
Call number: DK508.848 .M33 2015
 

"Easily the most rigorous, vital, and powerful movie of 2014, Sergei Loznitsa's Maidan may be a perfect Bazinian cinema-machine — reality is captured, crystallized, honored for its organic complexity, and delivered unpoisoned by exposition or emphasis. Every dissatisfaction you could be nursing about the obvious and overdetermined tenor of contemporary film — and particularly modern documentaries — is met here with thrown bricks."
—Michael Atkinson, Village Voice (full review here)