Tag: Kirill Serebrennikov
2025 Cannes: Kirill Serebrennikov in Cannes Premiere, Juno Mak in Midnight, Rebecca Zlotowski in OOC
A competition filmmaker mainstay, Kirill Serebrennikov has been downgraded to the Cannes Premiere section for the world premiere to The Disappearance of Josef Mengele....
2025 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
The Juliette Binoche-led main competition jury could have their work cut out for them, as this might be one of those years where Thierry...
Limonov: The Ballad | 2024 Cannes Film Festival Review
Wild at Heart: Serebrennikov Oversimplifies Odyssey of Soviet Dissident
If one were to dilute a Molotov cocktail enough to make its destructive capabilities null and...
Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad – 2024 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 6
Thierry Frémaux sure does like mister Kirill Serebrennikov. Since showcasing The Student in 2016's Un Certain Regard section, the Russian filmmaker (in exile) has...
2024 Cannes Film Festival: Payal Kapadia, Lanthimos, Baker, Gomes & Agathe Riedinger’s Debut Vie for Palme d’Or
With today's announcement of nineteen competition titles aiming in contention of the Palme d'Or (note that we might add another pair or trio next...
2024 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 25 Possible Palme d’Or Competition Films
Usually in the twenty to twenty-two film range, the competition for the Palme d'Or has been a tad more inclusive in recent years in...
2023 Eurimages: Cronenberg, Serebrennikov, Nordahl & Agnieszka Holland Land Coin
The Eurimages Project Evaluation Session of 2023 have just been announced and among the 32 supported films we have some veteran filmmakers in David...
Through the Looking Glass: Top 10 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2024
As we do every year, after we've unveiled our massive top list for the upcoming year (check out our Top 200) we like to...
Top 200 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2023: #26. Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
Limonov: The Ballad of Eddie
The critic elite in Cannes might not have been big (we were) on his Tchaikovsky's Wife, but Kirill Serebrennikov is...
Monster Dash: No Escaping Serebrennikov’s “The Disappearance” for August Diehl
A long-gestating project that was perhaps put on hold while Kirill Serebrennikov was fighting to not have to rot in a Russian jail, production...
Petrov’s Flu | Review
Delirium Tremens: Serebrennikov Maddens with Post-Soviet Magical Realism
Historically, Russian cinema (and literature) always tends to go for broke. Challenging narratives, endless characters, and opulent...
2022 Cannes Coverage Wrap-Up: Competition
Armageddon Time - James Gray
Boy from Heaven - Tarik Saleh
Broker - Hirokazu Kore-eda
Frère et sœur - Arnaud Desplechin
Close - Lukas...
2022 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 2 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Tchaikovsky’s Wife
The 2022 Cannes Film Festival Palme d'Or competition begins with Kirill Serebrennikov's Tchaikovsky's Wife -- his fourth consecutive feature to premiere at the Cannes...
Tchaikovsky’s Wife | 2022 Cannes Film Festival Review
Lady Beard: Serebrennikov Delivers Extravagant Recuperation of a Woman Undone
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, one of the 19th century’s most prolific composers, whose music remains an...
2022 Cannes: Abbasi, Dhont, Reichardt, Mungiu & Claire Denis Among 18 Titles Vying for Palme d’Or
The likes of first-time comp contenders Kelly Reichardt, Ali Abbasi and Lucas Dhont are joining former Palme d'Or winners Ruben Östlund, Kore-eda Hirokazu, the...
2022 Cannes Film Festival Predictions – 24 Palme d’Or Hopefuls
We've looked at the non-competing sections (10 predictions). We've visited (20 predictions) the possible Critics' Week programme. We explored (20 predictions) options for the...
2021 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 7 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu
Following Un Certain Regard preemed The Student and Leto in 2018, Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the competition with the dense Petrov's Flu. Unfortunately he...
Top 100 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2021: #60. Kirill Serebrennikov’s Petrov’s Flu
Petrov’s Flu
Russia’s Kirill Serebrennikov 2004 film Ragin, based on a Chekov story, won the East of West Award at Karlovy Vary and 2008’s Yuriy’s...
IndieSponge Episode: 14 – 2020 Venice Film Festival Predictions
On this week’s episode of IndieSponge, I invited Tommaso Tocci to discuss the possible titles that might make it into the 2020 edition of...
Top 150 Most Anticipated Foreign Films of 2020: #54. Petrov’s Flu – Kirill Serebrennikov
Petrov’s Flu
For his eighth feature, Russia’s Kirill Serebrennikov, still unable to leave Moscow despite being released from house of arrest in April of 2019,...
Interview: Irina Starshenbaum – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Leto | 2018 Cannes Film Festival
Two years after premiering an overtly political film in The Student (Un Certain Regard 2016), the gifted Russian filmmaker Kirill Serebrennikov returns to the...
The Conversation: Best Foreign Language Oscar Contenders
While we’ve yet to see what will take home the Golden Lion out of Venice this September, many of the contenders for what will...
2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel: Day 3 – Kirill Serebrennikov’s Summer (Leto)
Sadly, under house-arrest since post-production, Kirill Serebrennikov, the Russian stage, film director, and theatre designer would have loved the Croisette reaction to Summer (aka Leto). Following...
Live from Cannes: 2018 Cannes Critics’ Panel – Meet the Jury!
Celebrating our seventh year, for the 71st edition of Cannes, we decided to switch things up for our Cannes Critics' Panel. First, we expanded...
The Conversation: Nicholas Bell’s Top 10 Most Anticipated 2018 Cannes Films
Time will surely tell if Cannes 2018 is as truly daring as it thinks its competition line-up is, sporting nine directors (nearly half of...
The Conversation – Cannes Predictions V: Jia Zhangke & Kirill Serebrennikov Lead the Far East
Cannes 2017 had a strong crop of Russian titles on hand, and several 2018 possibilities could be poised for entry in this year’s program....
The Student | Review
Class Act: Serebrennikov Illustrates the Perils of Fundamentalism
Kirill Serebrennikov, one of several rising auteurs from Russia’s troubling political regime, reaches his widest platform yet...
