The Belarusian born, Ukraine filmmaker has loaded up the Cannes Film Festival with what feels like an easy dozen offerings in both the docu and fiction form and spreading over into the Competition, Un Certain Regard and Special Screenings sections. With a focus on Ukraine by way of historical memory and history, Sergei Loznitsa‘s most notable work in the fiction form include Cannes-selected My Joy (2010), In the Fog (2012) and 2018’s Donbass (read ★★★★½ review) while his last feature docu The Invasion (read ★★★ review) was an invite last year in the Special Screenings section. Two Prosecutors is Loznitsa’s fourth time in competition.
The second feature film in the competition (again there are twenty-two selections) is a Latvia, France, German, Netherlands, Romania and Lithuania co-production shot in Riga back in October. Based on the novel of the same name by Georgy Demidov, this is set in 1937, a young Soviet prosecutor comes across a letter written by a prisoner. Believing the man to be the victim of NKVD corruption, the prosecutor seeks out justice with the Procurator General.
Our 2012 Cannes Critics’ Panel stamped In the Fog with an average score of 3.1, while our 2017 Cannes Critics’ Panel gave A Gentle Creature a 2.9 average. With Two Prosecutors, we fall in the same range – twelve of our critics handed in their grades for a combined average score of 2.8.
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